Category Eponym
Sir Henry Head (1861-1940) 680

Henry Head

Sir Henry Head (1861-1940) was an English neurologist. Peripheral sensory dermatomes in man Head's zones (1893-1896)

Margaret Ruth Dix (1911-1991) 680

Margaret Dix

Margaret Dix (1911–1991), British neuro-otologist who co-developed the Dix–Hallpike test, reshaped diagnosis of vertigo and advanced vestibular science

Gaspard Vieusseux (1746-1814) 680

Gaspard Vieusseux

Swiss physician Gaspard Vieusseux (1746–1814) described cerebrospinal meningitis in 1805 and gave the first clinical account of lateral medullary syndrome.

Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578-1625) 680

Adriaan van den Spiegel

Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625), Flemish anatomist; described Spigelian line, fascia, hernia, and liver lobe in his posthumous atlas.

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) 680

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), father of pathology, pioneered clinico-anatomical correlation; his De sedibus shaped modern medicine.

Vincenz Alexander Bohdalek (1801–1883) 680

Vincent Bochdalek

Vincenz Alexander Bochdalek (1801–1883), Bohemian anatomist who described congenital diaphragmatic hernia and the choroid plexus ‘flower basket’.

Johann Friedrich Horner (1831 – 1886)

Johann Horner

Swiss ophthalmologist Johann Friedrich Horner (1831–1886), eponym of Horner's syndrome, advanced ophthalmic surgery and neuroanatomical diagnostics

eponym LITFL 340

Adolphe Pinard

Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934) was a French obstetrician. Inventor of the Pinard horn (fetoscope) and Pinard Obstetric Palpation

Alfred Jean Fournier (1832-1914) 340

Jean Alfred Fournier

Alfred Jean Fournier (1832-1914) was a French Dermatovereologist specialising in congenital syphillis, stressing the importance of syphilis as a cause of degenerative diseases and parasyphilitic conditions.

Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920)

Moritz Benedikt

Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920) was an Austro-Hungarian neurologist. Benedikt syndrome (1889); the criminal mind; dowsing and Darsonvalisation

George Huntington (1850-1916)

George Huntington

George Huntington (1850-1916) was an was an American physician. Described Huntington's disease (1872) at age 22 based on his family