Albert Frank Stanley Kent
Albert Frank Stanley Kent (1863 - 1958) was an English physiologist eponymously associated with the bundle of Kent, an alternative conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles, first described in 1913.
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Thomas Cuming
Thomas Cuming (1798 - 1887) was a North Irish physician renowned for works on aortic incompetence, cancum oris and peripneumonia in children.
Tomisaku Kawasaki
Tomisaku Kawasaki 川崎 富作 (1925-2020) Japanese pediatrician. Famous for the discovery and ongoing research into Kawasaki Disease (1967)
Otto Becker
Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828-1890) was a German ophthalmologist, eponymous with Becker sign, and Becker test for astigmatism.
Henry Earle
Henry Earle (1789 - 1838) was an English surgeon. Earle-Volkmann triangle (1829); Fracture bed for management of NOF fractures
William Henry Battle
William Henry Battle (1855–1936) English surgeon. Battle sign, postauricular (mastoid) ecchymosis fracture of the base of the skull (BOS).
Becoming an Oslerphile
Learning about the life of Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is perhaps the ultimate lesson in how to live life and practice medicine. Yet, he doesn’t go to war, he doesn’t fight or kill anyone, he doesn’t change the Fates of…
Lessons from our past
Thanks to Holly Tucker from Wonders and Marvels for re-stimulating my love of medical history. There is a wealth of information hidden in chronicles from the past – with much of it still pertinent to medicine today. Just wanted to…
Non-Medical Medical Eponyms
To truly define the domain of eponymous prolixity we have to understand the 'Who' aspect of naming convention...
Sigbert Ganser
Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (1853 – 1931) was a German psychiatrist. 'Ganser syndrome' an hysterical disorder he first described in 1898
Joseph Babinski
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (1857-1932) was a French neurologist.
Eli Moschcowitz
Eli Moschcowitz (1879 - 1964) was a Hungarian born, American pathologist and physician. Associated with Moschcowitz disease (TTP, 1925); Moschcowitz signa dn triad (1933)