Category Eponym
Wilhelm Löffler (1887-1972) 340

Wilhelm Löffler

Wilhelm Löffler (1887 – 1972) was a Swiss physician. Löffler is eponymously associated with two clinical manifestations of eosinophilia which he described: transient pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (Löffler syndrome, 1932) and endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler endocarditis, 1936).

eponym LITFL 340

William Henry Broadbent

Sir William Henry Broadbent, 1st Baronet KCVO FRS FRCP (1835 - 1907) was an English physician. Broadbent sign, Broadbent law

John (Jack) Handyside Barnes (1922-1985)

Jack Barnes

John (Jack) Handyside Barnes (1922-1985) was an Australian medical practitioner and toxinologist. 1964 the first specimens of the small stinger Carukia barnesi (Irukandji)

Sir William Osler (1849- 1919) 340 2

William Osler

Sir William Osler (1849-1919), British (Canadian-born) physician. Famous for his anecdotes (Oslerisms), Osler nodes and Osler sign

Edward Harry Bishop (1913-1995) 680

Edward Bishop

Edward Harry Bishop (1913-1995) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Bishop Score (1964), a method to evaluate the cervix in regard to the success or failure of induction of labor.