Joseph O’Dwyer
Joseph O'Dwyer (1841 – 1898) was an American physician. Father of laryngeal intubation in croup; O'Dwyer plain tube; system for intralaryngeal intubation; Fell-O’Dwyer apparatus
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James Douglas
James Douglas (1675 - 1742) was a Scottish physician and anatomist. Pouch of Douglas; folds of Douglas; and line of Douglas
August Karl Gustav Bier
August Karl Gustav Bier (1861-1949) German Surgeon. Used Esmarch tourniquet forming the basis of his eponymous Bier block regional anaesthesia
John H. Blease
John Henry Blease (1906 - 1985) British inventor and anaesthetic technician. Blease-Manley ventilator; the Alfo-Blease anaesthetic machine
John T. Bowen
John Templeton Bowen (1857 – 1940) was an American dermatologist. Eponym: Bowen's disease, Bowen's disease of the vulva, Bowenoid papulosis
Jacques Lisfranc
Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin (1787–1847) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Lisfranc joint / fracture / injury / amputation (1815)
James Israel
James Adolf Israël (1848 - 1926) was a German surgeon. Eponyms: Actinomyces israelii, Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign
B. Raymond Fink
B. Raymond Fink (1914 – 2000) was an American anesthesiologist. Fink effect (1955): diffusion anoxia/hypoxia or the third gas effect; Fink Laryngoscope Blade (1958); Fink Non-rebreathing Valve (1954)
J.S. Dunbar
Biography Born in 1921 in Barrie, Canada (possibly August 16, 1920) 1945 – MD from the University of Toronto school of medicine 1945-1948 rotating internship at the Toronto General Hospital, with surgical internship at the Queen Mary Veterans’ Hospital in…
Gordon Jackson Rees
Gordon Jackson Rees (1918 – 2001) was a British anaesthetist. He laid down the foundations for paediatric anaesthesia. Jackson Rees T-Piece, circuit and T-tube
Benjamin Alcock
Benjamin Alcock (1801 - ? ) was an Irish anatomist. Alcock described the pudendal canal (Alcock’s canal) in 1836
Charles Aston Key
Charles Aston Key (1793 –1849) was an English surgeon. Eponym: Key-Hodgkin murmur (1827)