Eponym

Róbert Bárány

by Dr Charlotte Baker and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 4, 2020

Róbert Bárány (1876 – 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. Nobel prize in for his “work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.”

John B. Murphy

by Dr Mike Cadogan and Dr Michael Leith, last update August 4, 2020

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

Gabriele Falloppio

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 4, 2020

Gabriele Falloppio (1523 – 1562) was an Italian physician and anatomist. Father of the condom to protect against STD’s (specifically syphilis) Fallopian tube

Paul Langerhans

by Dr Gary Zhang and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 4, 2020

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

Edith Potter

by Dr Rose Laud and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 4, 2020

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)

Pierre Flourens

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 4, 2020

Jean-Pierre-Marie Flourens (1794 – 1867) was a French physiologist. Founder of experimental brain science.

Cicely Williams

by Dr Eve Moss and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 7, 2020

Cicely Delphine Williams (1893–1992) was a highly influential Jamaican born, English paediatrician, nutritionist and child health advocate. Kwashiorkor (1933)

Elizabeth Blackwell

by Dr Eve Moss and Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 7, 2020

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 – 1910) was a British physician. In 1849, Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. National Women Physicians Day is held on her birthday February 3rd