Francis Dercum
American neurologist Francis Xavier Dercum (1856–1931), first described Dercum’s disease; pioneer in neurology, psychiatry, and medical education.
Eponym
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease (aka Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by epistaxis, cutaneous telangiectasia, and visceral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
Josef Thurner
Josef Thurner (b. 1927), Austrian pathologist and co-eponym of May–Thurner syndrome; led pathology in Salzburg and published widely on venous disease.
Robert May
Robert May (1912–1984), pioneer of scientific phlebology; co-described May–Thurner syndrome and the May perforating vein, advancing venous diagnostics.
Dercum’s disease
Overview of Dercum's disease: rare painful adipose‑tissue disorder, epidemiology, treatment strategies, and eponym history.
Alfred Lewis Galabin
Alfred Lewis Galabin (1843-1913) English obstetric physician. Using an apexcardiogram he was documented atrioventricular (AV) block in humans.
Alfred Fröhlich
Alfred Fröhlich (1871-1953) Austrian neurologist and pharmacologist; pioneer of neuroendocrinology who described adiposogenital dystrophy, linking pituitary lesions to obesity and hypogonadism.
Caleb Hillier Parry
Caleb Hillier Parry 1755–1822 English physician described Hemifacial atrophy; angina pectoris; Hirschprung disease; Graves disease in 1825
Samuel Wilks
Sir Samuel Wilks (1824–1911), British physician, pioneered clinicopathological correlation, defined Hodgkin’s disease, and led Guy’s Hospital and RCP.
Charles Brown-Sequard
Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817- 1894) was a French physician and physiologist. Brown-Séquard Syndrome (1850); Brown-Séquard Elixir; hormone therapy
Augusta Klumpke
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859-1927) was an American neurologist. Klumpke palsy (1885). First woman in France to receive the title of ‘interne des hôpitaux’ and the first female President of the Societé de neurologie de Paris.
Guy Fontaine
Guy Fontaine (1936–2018), pioneer of ARVD and Epsilon wave, transformed electrophysiology through innovations in cardiac pacing, mapping, and ablation.