Where are all the Women?
Hypothesis: Women are underrepresented in the realm of medical eponyms. Deep dive into eponymythology, and the roiling ocean of gender imbalance.
Category Eponym
Piotr Nikolsky
Piotr Vasiliyevich Nikolskiy Петро Васильович Нікольський (1858-1940) was a Russian dermatologist
William R. Pugh
William Russ Pugh (1806-1897) was an English anaesthetist and surgeon. Pugh's inhlaer; First use of Ether for surgery in Australia
Fontaine lead
Fontaine bipolar precordial leads (F-ECG) are used to increase the sensitivity of epsilon wave detection, characteristic of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD/C)
Paul Tillaux
Paul Jules Tillaux (1834-1904) French Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Tillaux fracture. First to describe 'Aïe crépitant de Tillaux'
Harry Angelman
Harry Angelman (1915-1996) was an English paediatrician
V. Ray Bennett
V.Ray Bennett (1922 – 1996) was an American engineer whose contributions to respiratory medicine resulted in saving thousands of lives during the Polio epidemic
Ivan Magill
Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill (1888 – 1986) was an Irish Anaesthetist. Epomnymously affiliated with various anaesthetic devices such as the Magill forceps
Josef Jadassohn
Josef Jadassohn (1863 - 1936) was a German dermatologist. Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome (pachyonychia congenita) (1906); Borst-Jadassohn; Jadassohn-Tièche blue naevus; Jadassohn-Bloch Technique
Felix Lewandowsky
Felix Lewandowsky (1879-1921) was a German dermatologist. Jadassohn–Lewandowsky syndrome, Lewandowsky’s syndrome, Lewandowsky–Lutz dysplasia and Lewandowsky tuberculid
Charles J. Aldrich
Charles John Aldrich (1861-1908) American neurologist. Provided early description of Mees lines he termed 'Leuconychia striata arsenicalis transversus'
Florence R. Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953) American anatomist and medical researcher. Early description (1900) of Mees lines of the fingernails secondary to arsenic poisoning