William James West
West Syndrome (Infantile Spasms) - Triad of infantile spasms, developmental delay and hypsarrhythmia on EEG. First described by William James West on his son in 1841
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Sutton’s Law
Sutton's law: When making a diagnosis one should first consider the obvious, and conduct tests which could confirm/ rule out the most likely diagnosis.
Charles Miller Fisher
Charles Miller Fisher (1913 - 2012) was a Canadian neurologist. Miller Fisher syndrome (1956) an acquired nerve disease variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Johann Lukas Schönlein
Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793 – 1864) was a German physician. Eponymously affiliated with Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
Moritz Heinrich Romberg
Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795-1873) was a German neurologist. Eponym: Romberg Test, Parry-Romberg syndrome and Howship–Romberg sign
André Strohl
André Strohl (1887 -1977) was a French physician and physicist. Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome described in 1916
James Parkinson
James Parkinson (1755 – 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, palaeontologist, geologist and political activist.
Jean-Alexandre Barré
Jean-Alexandre Barré (1880 - 1967) was a French neurologist. Multiple neurological eponyms including with Guillain and Strohl with the acute paralytic neuropathy known as Guillain - Barré syndrome described in 1916.
Fritz Valdemar Rasmussen
Fritz Valdemar Rasmussen (1837-1877) was a Danish physician. Co-editor of the Hospitals-Tidende Journal, Rasmussen recorded cases of massive haemoptysis secondary to pulmonary artery aneurysm in association with tuberculosis - eponymously termed the Rasmussen aneurysm
Hakaru Hashimoto
Hakaru Hashimoto 橋本 策 (1881 - 1934) was a Japanese medical practitioner. Hashimoto thyroiditis 1912
Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry
Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat (1826 - 1865) was a French physician. Landry ascending paralysis (1859) as early description of Guillain–Barré syndrome (1916)
Benjamin Sacks
Benjamin Sacks (1896 - 1971) was an American physician. 1924 - Along with Emanuel Libman defined atypical verrucous valvular lesions in patients with SLE (Libman–Sacks endocarditis)