Nils Westermark
Nils Johan Hugo Westermark (1892 - 1980) was a Swedish radiologist. Westermark sign (1938) of relative oligemia on CXR in pulmonary embolism
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Walter Holbrook Gaskell
Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847-1914) was a British physiologist central to our current understanding of cardiac physiology
Pierre Barrère
Pierre Barrère (1690 - 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion
William Morrant Baker
William Morrant Baker (1839 – 1896) was a British General Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Baker's cyst and Baker's cannula, a flexible tracheal cannula
John Osborn
John J Osborn (1917 – 2014) was an American intensivist, pediatrician and inventor. Eponym: 'current of injury' Osborn wave - 1953
Arthur Ernest Sansom
Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838 - 1907) was an English physician and anaesthetist.
Emil Theodor Kocher
Emil Theodor Kocher (1841 – 1917) was a Swiss Surgeon. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909. 5,000 thyroid excisions. Shoulder reduction
James Hope
Biography Born 23 February 1801 Stockport, England 1825 – Medical degree, Edinburgh University 1828 – MD Edin LRCP 1839 – Full physician at St. George’s Hospital 1840 – MRCS FRS FRCP Died 12 May 1841 of pulmonary tuberculosis Medical Eponyms…
Paula Hertwig
Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig (1889 - 1993) was a German geneticist. Hertwig-Weyers syndrome - Congenital disorder associating ulnar and digital aplasia - (1942, 1957)
Alfred Stieda
Eugen Julius Karl Paul Alfred Stieda (1869 – 1945) was a German Surgeon. Eponym: The Stieda fracture, Stieda tubercle and Pellegrini-Stieda disease (1908)
Henning Waldenström
Johan Henning Waldenström (1877-1972) Swedish Orthopaedic surgeon. Specialised in pediatric bone/joint tuberculosis Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease 1909
Jacques Calvé
Jacques Calvé (1875–1954) was a French orthopaedic surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with 'maladie de Calvé' (Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease)