Category Eponym

Ambroise Paré

Biography Born in 1509/1510 in Bourg-Hersant (Laval), France Died December 20, 1590 in Paris, France Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Paré A. Briefve collection de l’administration anatomique. 1549 Paré A. La maniere de traicter les playes faictes tant…

Richard Lower (1631 – 1691) 340

Richard Lower

Richard Lower (1631 - 1691) was an English physiologist. Early descriptions of cardiac tamponade, pericarditis, blood transfusion, xenotransfusion

Friedrich Busch

Biography Born 9 September 1844 1884 – Head of the newly opened Institute of Dental Medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin. Died 8 July 1916 Medical Eponyms Busch-Hoffa fracture [Hoffa fracture] (1869) Unicondylar coronal fracture of the lateral femoral condyle. Rare…

Oskar Vogt

Biography Born April 6, 1870 in Husum, Germany 1894 – Medical doctorate from Jena 1897 – Met Cécile Mugnier in Paris 1898 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp financially supported them, and in 1898, Oskar and Cécile founded a private research institute…

Johann Hoffmann (1857 – 1919)

Johann Hoffmann

Johann Hoffmann (1857-1919) was a German neurologist. The first 'pure' neurologist in Germany. Hoffmann reflex; Werdnig–Hoffmann syndrome

Erich Seidel (1882 – 1948) 340 256

Erich Seidel

Erich Seidel (1882 – 1948) was a German ophthalmologist. The Seidel Test (1921) is used to assess the presence of anterior chamber leakage in the cornea following trauma.

Richard von Volkmann (1830 – 1889) 340

Richard von Volkmann

Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) German surgeon, author of poetry and fiction. Multiple eponyms including Volkmann’s ischaemic contracture

arcanum veritas LITFL 340

Portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead

In 1789 Savigny published a description of the construction and uses of a portable apparatus for the recovery of the apparently dead, notable for it's catchy title and for the amazing prehospital resuscitation equipment replete with an ETT, NGT, OGT, bag...and rectal desufflator

Jean-Baptiste Hippolyte Dance

Biography Born 21 February 1797 Saint-Pal-de Chalencon, France Died of cholera on 18 April 1832 inParis Medical Eponyms Dance Sign (1826) sausage-like mass in the right upper quadrant with absence of bowel (or emptiness) in the right lower quadrant. The…