Category Eponym
eponym LITFL 340

Hakaru Hashimoto

Hakaru Hashimoto 橋本 策 (1881 - 1934) was a Japanese medical practitioner. Hashimoto thyroiditis 1912

Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat (1826 - 1865) 340

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 (1896 - 1971) 340

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)

Scipione Riva-Rocci (1863-1937) 340

Scipione Riva-Rocci

Scipione Riva-Rocci (1863-1937) was an Italian physician and paediatrician. Riva-Rocci introduced the upper arm cuff to measure systolic blood pressure

Henry Koplik (1858-1927) 340

Henry Koplik

Henry Koplik (1858 – 1927) was an American pediatrician. Eponymously affiliated with Koplik spots of measles first described in 1896