Biography Medical Eponyms Gerstmann syndrome autotopagnosia; finger agnosia Gerstmann syndrome 2 A paranoid psychosis with auditory hallucinations in patients with general paresis of the insane, as a result of malarial therapy, described by Gerstmann in 1924. Major Publications References Biography…
Claus Bang (1924-1970) was a Danish physician. Innovator behind the Bang Respirator which was used widely in Denmark during the Polio Epidemic.
Frans Johan Paul Frenckner (1896-1967) was a Swedish otolaryngologist. Inventor of the Spiropulsator and double lumen bronchoscope
Ross Golden (1889 - 1975) was an American radiologist. Eponymously remembered for Golden S sign first described in 1925
Peter Gordon Lawrence Essex-Lopresti (1916-1951) was a British orthopaedic surgeon. Eponym: Essex-Lopresti fracture (1951)
Jacques Forestier (1890-1978) was a French physician and rheumatologist, depiction of hyperostosis (1959) later called Forestier’s disease.
Norman Reynolds James (1908-1987) was an Australian anaesthetist, inventor and educator. Harrington-James ventilator, James Autohand Ventilator, Royal Melbourne (R.M.) resuscitator
Gustav Asboe-Hansen (1917-1989) was a Danish dermatologist. Eponymously remembered for his description of blister spread in pemphigus (Asboe-Hansen sign)
Benjamin Guy Babington (1794-1866) was an English physician and epidemiologist. Inventor of the laryngoscope in 1829
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Holter monitor, developed by American biophysicist Norman Jefferis 'Jeff' Holter (1914-1983)
Philip Raikes Bromage (1920 – 2013) was a British anaesthetist. Best known for popularizing epidural analgesia/anesthesia and his textbook Epidural Analgesia
Saul Allen Mackler (1913-2007) was an American thoracic Surgeon. Eponym: Mackler's triad (1952)