Selma A. Myhre
Selma Ann (née Myhre) Hageman (1937 - 2012) was an American pediatrician. Myhre syndrome (1981)
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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
Richard Lower (1631 - 1691) was an English physiologist. Early descriptions of cardiac tamponade, pericarditis, blood transfusion, xenotransfusion
Judith A. Diesendruck
Judith Abarbanel Diesendruck (1920 - 2007) was a Russian-American bacteriologist. Nelson-Diesendruck basal medium (1950)
Friedrich Busch
Biography Medical Eponyms Busch-Hoffa fracture [Hoffa fracture] (1869) Unicondylar coronal fracture of the lateral femoral condyle. Rare intra-articular distal femur injury. Axial compression to the knee with transmission of the ground reaction force through the tibial plateau to the femoral condyles. Controversies…
Oskar Vogt
Biography Medical Eponyms Vogt-Vogt syndrome (Hammonds disease) Extrapyramidal disturbance with double sided athetosis occurring in early childhood. Onset is months after birth when complex motor activity develops, such as sitting, standing, and walking. It is characterised by slow, writhing, purposeless…
Johann Hoffmann
Johann Hoffmann (1857-1919) was a German neurologist. The first 'pure' neurologist in Germany. Hoffmann reflex; Werdnig–Hoffmann syndrome
Austin Moore
Austin Talley Moore (1899–1963) was an American orthopedic surgeon. He was a pioneer in the use of the femoral-head prosthesis and Vitallium
Richard von Volkmann
Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) German surgeon, author of poetry and fiction. Multiple eponyms including Volkmann’s ischaemic contracture
Garrett Pipkin
Garrett Pipkin (1904-1981) was an American orthopedic surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Pipkin classification of femoral head fractures
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 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…