Category Eponym
James Sanders
Biography Born 1777 1802 – member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh Father of William Rutherford Sanders (1828-1881) Died 1843 Medical Eponyms Sanders sign (1823) The undulatory character of the cardiac impulse in the epigastric region, indicative of adherent…
Henri Victor Chaput
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
Lotte Strauss
Charles James Blasius Williams
Biography Born 3 February 1805 in the Hungerford almshouse in Wiltshire, England 1824 – Medical degree from the University of Edinburgh 1833 – Physician at St. George’s University, London 1835 – Fellow of the Royal Society 1840 – Fellow of…
Maurice Lev
Ludwig Courvoisier
Leo Buerger
Biography Born 1879 Died 1943 Medical Eponyms Buerger disease (1908) Carl Friedländer (1847-1887) Felix von Winiwarter (1852-1931) Buerger test Buerger dystoscope Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Biography Birch CA. Buerger’s disease. Leo Buerger (1879-1943). Practitioner. 1973;211(266):823-824. Kaplan GW. Leo…
Albert Hoffa
Pierre Nicolas Gerdy
Biography Born 1797 Died 1856 Medical Eponyms Gerdy tubercle is the prominence on the lateral side of the proximal tibia where the iliotibial band (ITB) and tibialis anterior muscle attach Gerdy’s Safe Zone () Major Publications Gerdy P-N. Essai de…