Paul Wilhelm Heinrich Langerhans (1847 – 1888) was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist. Langerhans cell (1868) of the immune system, and islets of Langerhans (1869) in the pancreas
Basic Science
Edith Potter
Edith Louise Potter (1901 – 1993) was an American pediatric pathologist. Potter facies (1946); Potter syndrome; Potter syndrome; Potter sequence; and the Potter classification of polycystic kidney disease (1964)
De-eponymising anatomical terminology
To evaluate the hypothesis that ‘There is ALWAYS an alternative to the dead man’s name for body parts’ and create a database to facilitate the de-eponymification of anatomic terminology
Gladys Dick
Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881 – 1963) was an American physician, pathologist and vaccinologist. Dick test (1924) in scarlet fever
Myrtelle Canavan
Myrtelle May Canavan (1879 – 1953) was an American neuropathologist. Canavan disease (1931)
Raissa Nitabuch
Raissa Semenovna Nitabuch [Раиса Семеновна Нитабух] (1859 – ) was a Russian physician and pathologist. Nitabuch layer [Слой Нитабух] (1887)
Novel drug therapies and COVID-19 clinical trials
Novel drug therapies and clinical research. Part 6 of the “COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath” series
Angelo Mosso
Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) was an Italian physiologist, archaeologist, politician, mountain climber and teacher.
Seraphina Schachowa
Seraphima Schachowa (1854 – ) was a Russian physician and histologist. Schachowa spiral tubulues (1876) [renal tubuli]
Walter Holbrook Gaskell
Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847-1914) was a British physiologist central to our current understanding of cardiac physiology
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