Mona Roberts
Mona Dew Roberts (1878-1936) was a Welsh General Practitioner and anaesthetist. Mona Roberts oropharyngeal airway (1916)
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Robert Beaver
Robert Atwood Beaver (1906-1975) was an English Anaesthetist, artist and engineer known for his development of the Beaver Respirator
Louis Vaquez
Louis Henri Vaquez (1860-1936) was a French physician and cardiologist. Described polycythaemia vera (Vaquez-Osler disease) in 1892
Moore fracture
Moore fracture (1870) of the distal end of the radius; luxation distal ulna; fracture ulna styloid. Edward Mott Moore (1814–1902) American Surgeon.
John Alfred Ryle
John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950) was an English physician and epidemiologist. Coined the phrase angor animi; and the Ryle nasogastric tube bears his name
Andranik Ovassapian
Andranik Ovassapian (1936 - 2010) was an American anesthesiologist and expert on difficult airway management.
Tom Throckmorton
Tom Bentley Throckmorton (1885-1961) was an American neurologist. Eponym: Throckmorton sign (John Thomas sign); Throckmorton reflex
Wilhelm Fabry
Wilhelm Fabricius von Hilden, also known as Guilhelmus Fabricius Hildanus, became known as the father of German surgery.
Philip G. Lindsay
Philip Gaylord Lindsay (1937 - 2017) was an American physician and psychiatrist. Remembered eponymously for Lindsay nails (1967)
Alexander Wood
Alexander Wood (1817-1884) was a Scottish physician. Inventor of the first hypodermic needle (1853), taking the 'sting of the bee' as his model
Jules-Joseph Dejerine
Jules-Joseph Déjerine (1849 - 1917) was a French neurologist. Jules-Joseph Déjerine (1849 - 1917) was a French neurologist. Eminent neurologist of the French 'classical neurology' era along with Brissaud, Marie and Babinski.
Frederic Hewitt
Biography Medical Eponyms Hewitt airway (1908) Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms