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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…

Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (1853 – 1931) 340

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. Multiple eponyms including Babinski reflex, Babinski sign, Babinski syndrome

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (1845 - 1917) 340

Louis Landouzy

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (1845-1917) was a French neurologist.. Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome and Landouzy syndrome

Antoine Marfan

Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan (1858 - 1942) was a French pediatrician. Described Marfan syndrome in 1896

Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887 - 1976) 340

Einar Meulengracht

Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887 - 1976) was a Danish physician. Meulengracht ikterus index; Meulengracht diet; Gilbert syndrome

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

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