Carl Wernicke
Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), German neurologist who described Wernicke’s area and aphasia, and identified Wernicke’s encephalopathy from thiamine deficiency
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Carl Westphal
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. Westphal sign, Westphal syndrome, Westphall-Strümpell pseudosclerosis, Westphal-variant Huntington disease, Leyden-Westphal ataxia, and the Edinger-Westphal nucleus
Abraham Colles
Abraham Colles (1773 - 1843) was an Irish surgeon and anatomist. Eponym: Colles Fracture (1814) distal radius/ulna fracture
André Cournand
André Frédéric Cournand (1895 – 1988) was a French physician and physiologist. Awarded the Nobel Prize for detailing heart catheterization
Maurice Sokolow
Maurice Sokolow (1911-2002). American Cardiologist known for his development of ECG criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy (Sokolow-Lyon criteria)
Elizabeth Blackwell
Celebrating the septaquintaquinquecentennial of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. National Women Physicians Day is held on her birthday February 3rd
José Luis Bado
José Luis Bado (1903 – 1977) was a Uruguayan surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Bado classification of Monteggia fractures.
Riccardo Galeazzi
Riccardo Galeazzi (1866-1952) was a pioneering Italian orthopaedic surgeon. The eponymous Galeazzi fracture is named after him.
Giovanni Battista Monteggia
Giovanni Battista Montéggia (1762-1815) was an Italian surgeon. Eponym: Monteggia fracture (1812) ulna fracture, radial head dislocation
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943) revolutionized medicine with the discovery of blood groups and the Rh factor, laying the foundation for modern transfusion and immunology.
William Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) was an English physicist, mathematician, and chemist. Bragg's Law, Bragg Spectrometer and Bragg-Paul Pulsator
Thomas sign
Thomas's sign: Silver, aluminium or metallic coloured stools. Caused by the combination of cholestatic (acholic) pale stools secondary to CBD obstruction and the black-tar colour malaena.