Category Eponym
Amédée Bonnet (1809-1858) 340

Amédée Bonnet

Amédée Bonnet (1809-1858) was a French orthopaedic surgeon. Described as the grandfather of knee and ligament surgery.

Walther Carl Eduard Kausch (1867 – 1928) 340

Walther Kausch

Walther Carl Eduard Kausch (1867 – 1928) was a German surgeon. 1907 performed first successful partial pancreatoduodenectomy (Whipple)

Alessandro Codivilla (1861 – 1912) 340

Alessandro Codivilla

Alessandro Codivilla (1861 – 1912) was an Italian surgeon. Original description of the first pancreatic head resection 1898 (Whipple)

Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (1816 – 1880) 1

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra

Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (1816-1880) was an Austrian physician and dermatologist. Founder New Vienna School of Dermatology

Francis John Shepherd (1851-1929) 340

Francis J Shepherd

Francis J. Shepherd (1851-1929) British/Canadian Surgeon eponymously associated with Shepherd's Fracture - lateral tubercle of the posterior talar process

Carl-Axel Cedell (1932-2021) 680

Carl-Axel Cedell

Carl-Axel Cedell (1932-2021) Swedish Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Cedell fracture - medial tubercle of the posterior talar process

Hugh Owen Thomas (1834 – 1891) 340

Hugh Owen Thomas

Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was a Welsh Orthopaedic Surgeon. Thomas knee splint (1865); Thomas Test and Thomas wrench for bonesetting

Richard F. Ashman (1890-1970) 2

Richard F. Ashman

Richard F. Ashman (1890-1970) was an American physiologist. Eponymously affiliated with Ashman phenomenon he first described in 1947

William-Osler-and-Egerton-Yorick-Davis-340 256

Egerton Y. Davis

Egerton Yorick Davis was a frequent author of letters to medical societies, although only rarely would his penmanship be published. He was a retired US Army surgeon from Quebec who drowned in the Lachine Rapids in 1884 - his body was never recovered.