Ivor Lewis
Ivor Lewis (1895–1982) was a Welsh surgeon. Eponymously remembered for 1946 description of Ivor Lewis Oesophagectomy
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Sister Mary Joseph
Sister Mary Joseph (Julia Dempsey) (1856 - 1939) was an American Catholic nun, nurse, and hospital administrator. Sister Mary Joseph sign (1928)
William Edwards Ladd
William Edwards Ladd (1880-1967) was an American paediatric surgeon. The father of paediatric surgery. Ladd bands, Ladd operation, Ladd syndrome (1932)
Louis Mercier
Louis-Auguste Mercier (1811-1882) was a French urologist. Devised the coude catheter (Mercier catheter) with the tip at an angle (Mercier angle)
Auguste Nélaton
Auguste Nélaton (1807-1873) was a French physician and surgeon. Along with Wilhelm Roser eponymously affiliated with the Roser-Nélaton line
Gabriele Falloppio
Gabriele Falloppio (1523 – 1562) was an Italian physician and anatomist. Father of the condom to protect against STD's (specifically syphilis) Fallopian tube
Joseph Asherman
Joseph G. Asherman (1889 - 1968) was a Czech-Israeli gynaecologist. Asherman Syndrome (1948)
Jay Heidbrink
Jay Albion Heidbrink (1875-1957)was an American dentist and inventor. Anacin, Kinet-O-Meter, Valve, wrench, and many more
Alfred Poland
Alfred Poland (1822-1872) was an English surgeon Eponymously remembered for his account of Poland syndrome in 1841
Maurice Raynaud
Auguste Gabriel Maurice Raynaud (1834-1881) was a French physician. Eponymously remembered for his description of Raynaud syndrome
Lauder Brunton
Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844-1916) was a Scottish physician
Frank Pantridge
Frank Pantridge (1916-2004) was a Northern Irish cardiologist who created pre-hospital coronary care through the invention of the portable defibrillator