Virginia P. Sybert
Virginia P. Sybert. American medical geneticist and dermatologist. Palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) of Sybert (1988)
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André Lemierre
André-Alfred Lemierre (1875 – 1956) was a French bacteriologist. Best known for his 1836 publication on the condition now known as Lemierre syndrome
Charles Lockwood
Charles Barrett Lockwood (1856 - 1914) was an English surgeon. Lockwood sign of chronic appendicitis, described by Colt in 1932
Ottomar Rosenbach
Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach (1851 - 1907) was a German physician. Rosenbach sign of aortic regurgitation (1878), Rosenbach sign of autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Rosenbach-Semon Law (1880), and Rosenbach test (1880).
Joseph Capgras
French psychiatrist, Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (1873-1950) best known for his description 'syndrome d’illusion des sosies', Capgras syndrome in 1923
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture (1886 - 1960) was an American pathologist. Goodpasture syndrome (1918)
George Frederic Still
Sir George Frederic Still (1868-1941) English paediatrician. Described as the 'father of British paediatrics'. Still's disease, Still's murmur
Thomas Fitz-Hugh
Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Jr (1894 – 1963) was an American Surgeon eponymously affiliated with Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome (1930, 1934)
Joseph Skoda
Joseph Škoda (1805–1881) was a Czech physician. Eponym: Skodaic ressonance (1837) - third class of percussion sounds
Ingegerd Larsen
Ingegerd Frøyshov Larsen (1937 - ) Norwegian physician and endocrinologist. Hansen-Larsen-Berg syndrome (1976)
Jules Cotard
Jules Cotard (1840 - 1889) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. Délire de négations - Cotard Syndrome (1882)
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani (1737 - 1798) Italian obstetrician, surgeon and anatomist. Discovered the physiological action of electricity and demonstrated the existence of natural electric current in animal tissue - "the electrical forces in muscular movements" or the 'animal electricity'