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==Medicine== * October 12 β An '[[Negative pressure ventilator|iron lung]]' [[medical ventilator]] designed by [[Philip Drinker]] and [[Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr.]], is used for the first time, at [[Boston Children's Hospital]] in the United States for treatment of [[poliomyelitis]]. * ''[[Dementia pugilistica]]'' is first described by forensic pathologist Dr. [[Harrison Stanford Martland]], chief medical examiner of [[Essex County, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Martland|first=H. S.|title=Punch Drunk|journal=[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]|volume=91|issue=15|pages=1103β1107|year=1928|doi=10.1001/jama.1928.02700150029009}}</ref>
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