Heneage Ogilvie
Sir William Heneage Ogilvie (1887-1971) was a British surgeon. Described Ogilvie Syndrome (1948) and Thomas sign (1955)
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Edward Both
Edward Thomas (Ted) Both (1908-1987) was an Australian engineer, known as the ‘Edison of Australia’. Invented the Both respirator and Both electrocardiograph among many others
Francis Dercum
Biography Medical Eponyms Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
Jean-Louis Alibert
Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768 - 1837) was a French dermatologist. Alibert mentagra; Alibert disease, Alibert keloid; Alibert-Bazin disease
Wilhelm Roser
Wilhelm Roser (1817 – 1888) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist. Along with Auguste Nélaton eponymously affiliated with the Roser-Nélaton line
Louis Queyrat
Louis Auguste Queyrat (1856-1933) was a French Dermatologist and syphilologist. Erythroplasia de Queyrat (carcinoma in situ of the glans)
Hamilton Bailey
Henry Hamilton Bailey (1894-1961) was an English surgeon and and influential medical publisher.
Johannes Zoon
Johannes Jacobus Zoon (1902-1958) was a Dutch dermatologist. Eponym Zoon's balanitis, ie balanitis chronica circumscripta plasmacellularis
Hugh Pemberton
Hugh Spear Pemberton (1890-1956) was an English physician. Pemberton's description of his manoeuvre and Pemberton Sign appeared in a brief letter to The Lancet in 1946
Ernest Bazin
Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin (1807-1878) French physician and dermatologist. Alibert-Bazin syndrome; Bazin disease
Georges Dieulafoy
Georges-Paul Dieulafoy (1839-1911) was a French Clinician. Dieulafoy's Lesion, Dieulafoys Aspirator and Dieulafoys Triad
Josef Gerstmann
Biography Austrian neuropsychiatrist who studied at Vienna and then became first assistant to von Jauregg in the Viennese Psychiatric Clinic. During the World War I, he served in the medical corps in the Italian Alps, attending to a number of…