Claus Bang
Claus Bang (1924-1970) was a Danish physician. Innovator behind the Bang Respirator which was used widely in Denmark during the Polio Epidemic.
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Paul Frenckner
Frans Johan Paul Frenckner (1896-1967) was a Swedish otolaryngologist. Inventor of the Spiropulsator and double lumen bronchoscope
Ross Golden
Ross Golden (1889 - 1975) was an American radiologist. Eponymously remembered for Golden S sign first described in 1925
Peter Essex-Lopresti
Peter Gordon Lawrence Essex-Lopresti (1916-1951) was a British orthopaedic surgeon. Eponym: Essex-Lopresti fracture (1951)
Jacques Forestier
Jacques Forestier (1890-1978) was a French physician and rheumatologist, depiction of hyperostosis (1959) later called Forestier’s disease.
Norman James
Norman Reynolds James (1908-1987) was an Australian anaesthetist, inventor and educator. Harrington-James ventilator, James Autohand Ventilator, Royal Melbourne (R.M.) resuscitator
Morell Mackenzie
Biography Key Medical Contributions Quoted by Norman Rupert Barrett (1903-1979) in 1950 for his original work and definition of acute oesophagitis. Acute oesophagitis: Acute idiopathic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the oesophagus giving rise to extreme odynphagia, and often…
Second disease
Scarlet fever (second disease) is a bacterial illness (GABHS) that often presents as diffuse erythematous rash in the setting of a sore throat (streptococcal pharyngitis)
Frederick Forchheimer
Frederick Forchheimer (1853-1913) was an American pediatrician. Eponym: Forchheimer spots enanthem in rubella in 1898
Fifth disease
Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), is a common manifestation of infection in children characterized by low-grade fever, malaise, facial rash, and later by the spread of a lacy maculopapular rash involving the trunk and limbs.
Gustav Asboe-Hansen
Gustav Asboe-Hansen (1917-1989) was a Danish dermatologist. Eponymously remembered for his description of blister spread in pemphigus (Asboe-Hansen sign)
Philip Allison
Philip Rowland Allison (1907-1974) was an English thoracic surgeon.