Henry Heimlich Edward Patrick issued a press release portraying himself as the uncredited co-developer of the maneuver. "I would like to get proper credit for what I've done...but I'm not hyper about it." Heimlich claimed to have used his namesake maneuver to rescue a choking victim for the first time on May 23, 2016, when he was aged 96, reportedly saving the life of a fellow resident of his senior living community, Patty Ris. However, in 2003 he told the BBC that he had used it for the first time on a man choking in a restaurant. Heimlich claimed his namesake treatment
Henry Freke Henry Freke Henry Freke (1813-1888) was an Irish physician and early evolutionary writer. Freke proposed an evolutionary theory in 1851 and more fully in a book for 1861. He took a B. A. at Trinity in 1840, his M. B. in 1845 and his M.D. in 1855. He worked as a physician in various hospitals in Dublin and worked at the first Irish lunatic asylum founded by Jonathan Swift. His early writings in the "Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science" experimented with evolutionary ideas such as all organisms descending from a single germ. He is credited for developing the concept