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James Hope

Biography Born 23 February 1801 Stockport, England 1825 – Medical degree, Edinburgh University 1828 – MD Edin LRCP 1839 – Full physician at St. George’s Hospital 1840 – MRCS FRS FRCP Died 12 May 1841 of pulmonary tuberculosis Medical Eponyms…

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Paula Hertwig

Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig (1889 - 1993) was a German geneticist. Hertwig-Weyers syndrome - Congenital disorder associating ulnar and digital aplasia - (1942, 1957)

James Sanders

Biography Medical Eponyms Sanders sign (1823) The undulatory character of the cardiac impulse in the epigastric region, indicative of adherent pericardium (l’adhérence du péricarde). Specifically the presence of a depression occurring under the left ribs and in the epigastrium during…

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Henri Victor Chaput

Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput (1857 – 1919) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Tillaux-Chaput fracture (1907)

Charles James Blasius Williams

Biography Born 3 February 1805 in the Hungerford almshouse in Wiltshire, England 1824 – Medical degree from the University of Edinburgh 1833 – Physician at St. George’s University, London 1835 – Fellow of the Royal Society 1840 – Fellow of…

Pierre Nicolas Gerdy

Biography Born 1797 Died 1856 Medical Eponyms Gerdy tubercle is the prominence on the lateral side of the proximal tibia where the iliotibial band (ITB) and tibialis anterior muscle attach Gerdy’s Safe Zone () Major Publications Gerdy P-N. Essai de…

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Alexander Monro secundus

Alexander Monro secundus (1733-1817) was a Scottish physician and anatomist. Most notable contributions include works on the lymphatic system, the interventricular foramen (of Monro), and the Monro-Kellie doctrine