Paul Louis Duroziez
Paul Louis Duroziez (1826 - 1897) was a French general practitioner, eponymous with Duroziez sign (1861) and Duroziez disease (1877).
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John Madison Taylor
John Madison Taylor (1855-1931) was an American pediatric neurologist. He designed the first tendon reflex hammer in 1888
François Gigot de La Peyronie
François Gigot de La Peyronie (1678-1747) was a French surgeon. Eponym: Peyronie disease in 1743
Carl von Liebermeister
Biography Born 2 February 1833, Ronsdorf Died 24 November 1901, Tübingen Medical Eponyms Liebermeister rule: Defining the relationship between pulse frequency and body temperature in fever. In fever, when the body temperature increases by one degree centigrade, the pulse frequency…
Jean-Charles Faget
Jean-Charles Faget (1818 - 1884) was a French physician. Faget reported an exception to the Liebermeister rule in his description of yellow fever [Faget sign] in 1858
David Bayford
David Bayford (1739 – 1790) was an English surgeon and physician. In February I76I, Bayford (1739-1790) was present for an autopsy where an emaciated woman (Jane Fordham) of 62 died of ‘obstructed deglutition’ of many years standing. Dr Lucas performing…
Charles Macklin
Charles Clifford Macklin (1883-1959) was a Canadian pulmonologist. Macklin Effect (1939)
James Paget
Sir James Paget (1814 - 1899) was a renowned English surgeon. In a career spanning eight decades, with research and practice in surgery, as well as serving the royal family during Queen Victoria’s reign
Ferdinand-Jean Darier
Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) was a Hungarian born, French dermatologist and physician. Affiliated with Darrier sign and Darier disease
Charles Saint
Charles Frederick Morris Saint (1886 – 1973) was a British abdominal surgeon. Saint’s Triad association of hiatal hernia, gallbladder disease, and diverticulosis is named after him Biography Born 14 August 1886 Bedlington, Northumberland 1908 – Durham University College of Medicine,…
Manes Kartagener
Manes Kartagener (1897 - 1975) was an Austrian-Swiss physician. First to report the triad of situs inversus, chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis in 1933 – Kartagener syndrome.
Lisfranc fracture
Lisfranc fracture named after Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin and his amputation - removal of the forefoot at the tarsometatarsal joint complex (1815)