I see you already have a ton of recommendations, but I’ll throw in the Zowie/BenQ mice. I’ve had mine for I think 6-8 years and it’s still going strong. The only thing it doesn’t have is the left/right wheel function. It looks like they’ve gone a little heavy on the ‘gaming’ focus in their branding, but the designs haven’t changed much in the time since I bought mine.
Aye, there’s a pattern of breathing named after him. In respect to the possibility of him being its ‘discoverer,’ there was a greater demand on physicians to be more than medicine dispensers back then. While these days you have a pretty clear divide between MDs that treat patients and MDs that do research, it wouldn’t surprise me if a physician in the late 19th century was formulating his own medications to test, and might have a hobby of experimenting with materials that didn’t pan out as medication.