You don’t know about the stones?
I really like the tropical tales ("parasites and people") of the late Dr Robert S. Desowitz, who was Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Hawaii and worked with the World Health Organization.
Category Eponym
Georges Charles Guillain
Georges Charles Guillain (1876 – 1961) was a French neurologist. Associated with multiple neurology-related eponyms including Guillain-Barré syndrome
Crazy Bug Hunter 003
Alfred Russel Wallace did not knowingly study infectious diseases or their microbial causes, but he did travel extensively and repeatedly put himself in the biological line of fire, as evidenced in his many writings.
Lest We Forget
With the combined rebuilding of ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ and our arrival at a new domain I feel refreshed and revitalised…’able to leap tall buildings in a single bound‘ and able to set forth some of the contextual learning…
Friedrich Schultze
Friedrich Schultze (1848 - 1934) was a German neurologist.
Nathan Weiss
Nathan Weiss (1851 - 1883) was a Czech born, Austrian trained physician and neurologist.
František Chvostek
Biography Born 21 May 1835 Frýdek-Místek, Moravia (Czech Republic) Died 16 November 1884 Medical Eponyms Chvostek sign (1876) Key Medical Attributions Controversies Father of Franz Chvostek Jr (1864-1944), known for Chvostek symptom Major Publications Chvostek F. Beitrag zur Tetanie. Wiener…
Osler and Australia
Sir William Osler Australian connections and his Australian legacy is discussed in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Wilhem His Jr
Wilhelm His Jr. (1863–1934) was a Swiss cardiologist and anatomist. Bundle of His (1893) - atrioventricular (AV) bundle
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.
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)