Herbert M. Greene
Herbert Merton Greene (1878-1962), American physician who linked post-lumbar puncture headache to dural trauma and designed the Greene needle
Category Eponym
Arthur Läwen
Arthur Georg Läwen (1876–1958), German surgeon. Anaesthesia pioneer sacral/extradural anaesthesia, paravertebral block, novocaine, curare and artificial ventilation.
MacDonald Critchley
Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997): Pioneering neurologist of higher brain function; author of The Parietal Lobes; leader, teacher, and medical humanist.
Charles E. Flowers Jr
Charles Ely Flowers Jr (1920-1999). American obstetrician-gynaecologist linked to continuous peridural anaesthesia and the Tuohy–Flowers epidural needle
Bassler Sign
Bassler sign: 1913 palpation technique for chronic appendicitis, early eponym use, anatomical rationale and limits of diagnostic evidence.
Jacob Moritz Blumberg
Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873–1955): German surgeon who described rebound tenderness, developed surgical gloves and pioneered gynaecological instruments.
J. Englebert Dunphy
John Englebert Dunphy (1908–1981), American surgeon renowned for wound healing research, surgical education and the eponymous Dunphy sign in appendicitis.
Nicholas Alders
Nicholas Alders (1904–1995), Austrian-trained obstetrician who fled Nazi Vienna in 1938. Alders sign for abdominal pain in pregnancy (1951)
Charles McBurney
Charles Heber McBurney (1845 – 1913) was an American surgeon. Most famous for McBurney's point (1889) and McBurney's incision (1894) Medical Eponym.
Anthony Bassler
Anthony Bassler (1874–1959): American gastroenterologist, author and instrument innovator remembered for Bassler sign and advancing medical education.
Williams Bryan
Williams McIver Bryan, Jr (1917-2007), American obstetrician and gynecologist. Described Bryan sign in appendicitis with gravid uterus (1955)
Walter Bastedo
Walter Arthur Bastedo (1873–1952), American physician, pharmacologist and gastroenterologist who described Bastedo sign for chronic appendicitis.
