Today In Medical History – July 7

(1843) Italian physician, biologist, pathologist, scientist Camillo Golgi is born. Along with studying the different cellular components, he is most remembered for identifying the golgi apparatus.
(1924) Russian neuroscientist and psychologist Natalia Bekhtereva is born. She published more than 360 works, including a report on the biopotential of cerebral hemispheres in human brain tumors.
(1934) British zoologist Robert McNeill Alexander is born. He is known for his work on the mechanics of locomotion, and the gait of mammals.