====== 1903 ====== [[1902]]-[[1904]] Medical [[anti-shock trousers]] were first described in [[1903]] by surgeon G.W. Crile as he tried to augment [[blood pressure]] with a "pneumatic rubber suit" during neurosurgical [[[[procedure]]]]s. ---- The unilateral [[suboccipital approach]] was popularized by Woolsey ([[1903]]) and with great contributions by [[Fedor Krause]] ([[1905]]). After several refinements and modifications through different dedicated neurosurgeons (Fish, House and Seiffert , Dandy's suboccipital approach ([[1917]]) with an ipsilateral suboccipital flap evolved to the [[retrosigmoid transmeatal approach]]. ---- [[Marchiafava–Bignami disease]] is a progressive neurological disease of [[alcoholism]], characterized by [[corpus callosum]] demyelination and [[necrosis]] and subsequent atrophy. The disease was first described in [[1903]] by the Italian pathologists Amico Bignami and Ettore Marchiafava in an Italian Chianti drinker.