Category Eponym
August Gottlieb Richter (1742-1812) 680

August Richter

August Gottlieb Richter (1742–1812), German surgeon; Richter’s hernia, advanced cataract extraction, and elevated surgery into academia

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862) 680

Benjamin Brodie

Sir Benjamin Brodie (1783–1862), English surgeon; pioneer in joint disease, Brodie’s abscess, medical ethics, and surgical education reform.

Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888 – 1974) 340

Mary Walker

Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888 - 1974) was a Scottish physician. Mary Walker effect (1934); neostigmine and myasthenia gravis

Sir William Stokes (1839-1900) 680

Sir William Stokes (surgeon)

Sir William Stokes (1839–1900), Irish surgeon and son of William Stokes, pioneered surgical techniques and served as RCSI professor and Queen Victoria’s surgeon

Nil Fyodorovich Filatov (1847-1902) 680

Nil Filatov

Nil Filatov (1847–1902), founder of Russian paediatrics, described key signs in measles, rubella, and mononucleosis; led Moscow’s first children’s hospital.

Louis Virgil Hamman (1877-1946) 680

Louis Hamman

Louis Virgil Hamman (1877–1946), Johns Hopkins physician and diagnostician, described Hamman’s sign, Hamman syndrome, and Hamman-Rich syndrome

eponym LITFL 340

Joseph Rouanet

Joseph Rouanet (1797–1865), French physician, first linked heart sounds to valve closure. His 1832 thesis laid foundations for modern cardiac auscultation.