Friedrich Paul Reichel
Friedrich Paul Reichel (1858 – 1934) was a German surgeon eponymously affiliated with Reichel syndrome (synovial osteochondromatosis; Henderson-Jones disease) which he first described in 1900
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Christian Heerfordt
Biography Born 1871 Died 1953 Medical Eponyms Heerfordt syndrome (1909) a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis characterized by the presence of fever, facial nerve palsy, parotid gland enlargement, anterior uveitis, and low grade fever Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Heerfordt…
Christian Doppler
Christian Andreas (Johann) Doppler (1803-1853) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician known principally for his description of the Doppler effect
Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown (1921-2021) American cardiologist, activist and inventor. Developed DC cardioversion. Nobel Peace prize winner. Eponym: Lown-Ganong-Levine
Augustin Gilbert
Augustin Nicolas Gilbert (1858-1927) was a French physician. Eponym Gilbert Syndrome (1901)
Leonard Erskine Hill
Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (1866 - 1952) was an English physiologist. Remembered for Hill's sign first described in 1909
Johannes von Esmarch
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (1823 - 1908) was a German Surgeon.
H Kirk Watson
Biography 1960 – Graduated George Washington University Medical Eponyms Watson’s test (1988) [scaphoid shift] – to assess scapholunate instability Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Watson HK, Ashmead D 4th, Makhlouf MV. Examination of the scaphoid. J Hand Surg Am. 1988…
Rolland J. Whitacre
Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Whitacre epidural needle Whitacre epidural needle tip is shaped into circular cone or bullet with side-hole for injection of solution. This Pencil Point (Whitacre point) is used for Spinal Anesthesia and is characterized by low…
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart des Marets (1755 - 1821) was a French physician.
Robert F. Hustead
Biography Born 1928 Pueblo, Colorado MD, Yale University 1950 – President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists 1959-1961 Johns Hopkins departments of anesthesiology and OB/GYN 1961 – University of Kansas School of Medicine 1973 – Ophthalmic anesthesia Wichita, Kansas Founder…
Charles Stent
Biography Medical Eponyms A dental splint destined to control the Stent* is fitted to any existing teeth or to the alveolar ridge (see figs. 1 and 2), and the sulcus is deepened per oram to the satisfaction of the dental…