Category Eponym
Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887 - 1976) 340

Einar Meulengracht

Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887 - 1976) was a Danish physician. Meulengracht ikterus index; Meulengracht diet; Gilbert syndrome

Christian Heerfordt

Biography Medical Eponyms Heerfordt syndrome (1909) a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis characterized by the presence of fever, facial nerve palsy, parotid gland enlargement, anterior uveitis, and low grade fever Major Publications References

Christian Doppler

Christian Andreas (Johann) Doppler (1803-1853) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician known principally for his description of the Doppler effect

Bernard-Lown-1921 340

Bernard Lown

Bernard Lown (1921-2021) American cardiologist, activist and inventor. Developed DC cardioversion. Nobel Peace prize winner. Eponym: Lown-Ganong-Levine

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (1866 – 1952) 1200

Leonard Erskine Hill

Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (1866 - 1952) was an English physiologist. Remembered for Hill's sign first described in 1909

H Kirk Watson

Biography 1960 – Graduated George Washington University Medical Eponyms Watson’s test (1988) [scaphoid shift] – to assess scapholunate instability Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Watson HK, Ashmead D 4th, Makhlouf MV. Examination of the scaphoid. J Hand Surg Am. 1988…

Charles Stent

Biography Medical Eponyms A dental splint destined to control the Stent* is fitted to any existing teeth or to the alveolar ridge (see figs. 1 and 2), and the sulcus is deepened per oram to the satisfaction of the dental…