Cicely Williams
Cicely Delphine Williams (1893–1992) was a highly influential Jamaican born, English paediatrician, nutritionist and child health advocate. Kwashiorkor (1933)
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Ella H. Oppenheimer
Ella Hutzler Oppenheimer (1897 - 1981) was an American pediatric pathologist and amateur conchologist. Landing-Oppenheimer syndrome (1959)
Judith G. Hall
Judith Goslin Hall (1939 - ) pediatrician and clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist. Pallister-Hall syndrome (1980)
Henry Hill Hickman
Henry Hill Hickman (1800 – 1830) was an English physician, country doctor and discoverer of inhalation anaesthesia
Margaret D. Baber
Margaret Doreen Baber (1910 - 1997) was a Welsh paediatrician. Baber syndrome (1956)
Ester Grönblad
Ester Elisabeth Groenblad (1898 - 1970) was a Swedish ophthalmologist. Grönblad-Strandberg syndrome in 1929
Pierre Flourens
Jean-Pierre-Marie Flourens (1794 - 1867) was a French physiologist. Founder of experimental brain science.
Adolf Weil
Adolf Weil (1848-1916) was a German physician. Eponymous affiliation with Weil disease (1886); discovery of an alpha-amino acid known as norleucine 1913
Gladys Dick
Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881 - 1963) was an American physician, pathologist and vaccinologist. Dick test (1924) in scarlet fever
Karel Wenckebach
Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864-1940) Dutch physician. Eponymously affiliated with Wenckebach block (Mobitz type I AV block).
Luigi Luciani
Luigi Luciani (1840 – 1919) was an Italian neuroscientist. discovery referring to the phenomena as ‘Luciani periods‘ (Wenckebach AV block)
John B. Murphy
John Benjamin Murphy (1857-1916) was an American physician and abdominal surgeon. Eponymously remembered for Murphy’s Sign (...but not as you know it); Murphy's triad; Murphy's punch test and many more