Augustus Desiré Waller
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James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing (1866-1943) Eponymously remembered for describing a new “endothelioma” that would later be known as Ewing sarcoma
Will Pickles
Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo The great order of the ages is born afresh. Major Greenwood, 1939 Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
Frank Eve
Frank Cecil Eve (1871-1952) was an English physician. Eponym: Eve’s rocking method for artificial respiration published in 1932
William Dabney
William Cecil Dabney (1849-1894) was an American physician and obstetrician. 'Devil's grip' (pleurodynia), the first to be published in North America.
Konrad Weiss
Konrad Weiss (1891 - 1976) was an Austrian radiologist. Early descriptions of Müller-Weiss syndrome, the dissecting aortic aneurysm, and gastric torsion
Friedrich Arnold
Friedrich Arnold (1803 – 1890) was a German professor emeritus of anatomy and physiology
Pierre Grisel
Pierre Adolph Grisel (1869 – 1959) was a French paediatric ENT surgeon. Described Grisel syndrome (nontraumatic rotatory subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint) in 1930
Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig
Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig (1790 – 1865) was a German surgeon and obstetrician. Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig (1790 – 1865) was a German surgeon and obstetrician. Best known for his 1836 publication on the condition now known as Ludwig angina
Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (1869 – 1939) was an American neurosurgeon.
Róbert Bárány
Róbert Bárány (1876 - 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. Nobel prize in for his "work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus."
Peter Beighton
Peter Beighton OMB, MD PhD, FRCP . Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Beighton Score (1971)