When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2025

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My list of 110 medically related anniversaries for 2025 (events in years ending ’25 and’75) includes: ● Fifty two births: Charles Rochemont Aikin, surgeon; William Aitken, pathologist; Sir John Baber, physician; Helen Rae Bamber née Balmuth, human rights advocate and psychotherapist; Charles Cassidy Bass, American physician; Norman Bier, optometrist and contact lens specialist; Baruch Samuel “Barry” Blumberg, American scientist; Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle, anaesthetist; Leslie Baruch Brent, transplantation immunologist; Fred Brown, virologist; Alfred John Carpenter, physician; Jean-Martin Charcot, French physician and neurologist; Joseph Thomas Clover, anaesthetist and surgeon; Barry Albert Cross, physiologist; Henry Hallett Dale, pharmacologist and physiologist; William Bill Davison, geriatrician; John Dossetor, Canadian physician; Robert Geoffrey Edwards, physiologist; John Richard Farre, physician; Robert Jackson Fletcher, optometrist; Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist; Wendy Elsa Greengross, general practitioner and broadcaster; David Gregorie, Scottish physician; Samuel Osborne Habershon, physician; Daniel Hanbury, pharmacologist; Henry Harris, cell biologist; Andrew Herxheimer, physician and clinical pharmacologist; Henry Tristram Holland, missionary and eye surgeon; Timothy Holmes, surgeon; Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist; John Kidd, physician; Homer Terril Lane, educationist and psychoanalyst; John Charles Grant Ledingham, bacteriologist; Mary Frances Lyon, geneticist; Johann Baptist Malfatti, Count of Monteregio, Italian born physician; John Marks, chairman of the BMA; Thomas Morson, pharmaceutical manufacturer; Autar Singh Paintal, Indian scientist, discoverer of sensory receptors; Edward William Pritchard, surgeon and poisoner; Reginald Crundall Punnett, experimental geneticist; Richard Reece, physician; J Murdoch Ritchie, neuroscientist, biophysicist, and pharmacologist; William Tindal Robertson, physician; Martin Rodbell, American scientist; Oliver Smithies, biochemist and geneticist; Henry Sessions Souttar, surgeon; Keith Sykes, professor of clinical anaesthesia; Alexander Cuthbert Turnbull, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology; Hubert Maitland Turnbull, pathologist; Patrick David Pat Wall, neuroscientist; John Wood, surgeon; Oliver Murray Wrong, physician and nephrologist; ● Twenty four deaths: Charles Cassidy Bass, American physician; Thomas Bowdler, English physician and expurgator; George Calvert, surgeon; Colin Chisholm, …