John Benjamin Murphy (1857 – 1916) was an American physician and abdominal surgeon. Murphy’s Sign (1903); Murphy’s triad; Murphy’s punch test and many more
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Angelo Mosso
Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) was an Italian physiologist, archaeologist, politician, mountain climber and teacher.
Carl Wunderlich
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815 – 1877) was a German physician. Inventor of the clinical thermometer. Wunderlich syndrome and law
William Ewart
William Ewart (1848 – 1929) was an English physician. Ewart signs of pericardial effusion (1896) and his twelve signs of pericardial effusion
Ivan Whiteside Magill
Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill (1888 – 1986) was an Irish Anaesthetist. Epomnymously affiliated with various anaesthetic devices such as the Magill forceps
Pierre Barrère
Pierre Barrère (1690 – 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion
Arthur Ernest Sansom
Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838 – 1907) was an English physician and anaesthetist.
James Hope
Biography Born 23 February 1801 Stockport, England 1825 – Medical degree, Edinburgh University 1828 – MD Edin LRCP 1839 – Full physician at St. George’s Hospital 1840 – MRCS FRS FRCP Died 12 May 1841 of pulmonary tuberculosis Medical Eponyms Hope sign (1832) Systolic protrusion and retraction of the anterior chest wall in patients with […]
T. Philip Ayre
Thomas Philip Ayre (1901-1979) was an English anaesthetist. Ayre is most well-known for his eponymous T-piece, a device which revolutionised anaesthesia for babies and children.
Alfred Stieda
Eugen Julius Karl Paul Alfred Stieda (1869 – 1945) was a German Surgeon. Eponym: The Stieda fracture, Stieda tubercle and Pellegrini-Stieda disease (1908)
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