Biography 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 sign combines a visible depression/emptiness within the right iliac fossa and enlargement/fullness on the left…
Paul Dudley White (1886-1973) was an American cardiologist. White with Louis Wolff and John Parkinson (WPW syndrome 1930); McGinn-White pattern (1935)
Sir John Parkinson (1885-1976) was an English cardiologist. In 1930, Parkinson along with Louis Wolff and Paul Dudley White, described WPW Syndrome
Louis Wolff (1898-1972) was an American cardiologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) described in 1930
Friedrich von Müller (1858-1941) was a German physician. Revered as ‘The Great Clinician’. Müller sign in aortic regurgitation (1889).
Percivall Pott (1714-1788) was a British surgeon. Extensive work with hernia repair, hydrocoele repair, vertebral TB and his own Pott fracture
I really like the tropical tales ("parasites and people") of the late Dr Robert S. Desowitz, who was Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Hawaii and worked with the World Health Organization.
Alfred Russel Wallace did not knowingly study infectious diseases or their microbial causes, but he did travel extensively and repeatedly put himself in the biological line of fire, as evidenced in his many writings.
With the combined rebuilding of ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ and our arrival at a new domain I feel refreshed and revitalised…’able to leap tall buildings in a single bound‘ and able to set forth some of the contextual learning…
Friedrich Schultze (1848 - 1934) was a German neurologist.
Nathan Weiss (1851 - 1883) was a Czech born, Austrian trained physician and neurologist.
Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Chvostek sign (1876) Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms