Wladimir Bechterew
Biography There are only two persons who know the anatomy of the brain perfectly – God and Bekhterev. Friedrich Kopsch Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
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Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a Scottish anatomist, physiologist, neurologist and surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Bell's palsy
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) was an English neurologist. Responsible for developing the modern concept of epilepsy. Multiple eponyms
Rutherford Morison
James Rutherford Morison (1853 - 1939) was an English surgeon. Pouch of Rutherford Morison* (1894) BIPP: Bismuth, iodoform and paraffin paste
Robert William Smith
Robert William Smith (1807 - 1873) was an Irish Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Smith Fracture. Performed autopsy on Colles
Robert Todd
Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) was an Irish physician. Provided early depictions of migraine, peripheral neuritis, and postepileptic paralysis (Todd's palsy). He also gave an important discourse on locomotor ataxy (tabes dorsalis).
Berkeley Moynihan
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865-1936) was an English General surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Moynihan sign (1905), an adaptation of Murphy's sign, a method used to differentiate pain in the right upper quadrant.
Sven-Ivar Seldinger
Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921 – 1998) was a Swedish Radiologist. Seldinger Technique a technique for safe percutaneous access to vessels and hollow organs that is widely used today.
Wilhelm Löffler
Wilhelm Löffler (1887 – 1972) was a Swiss physician. Löffler is eponymously associated with two clinical manifestations of eosinophilia which he described: transient pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (Löffler syndrome, 1932) and endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler endocarditis, 1936).
François Calot
Jean-François Calot (1861-1944) was a French surgeon. Eponymously associated with Calot’s Triangle (cystohepatic triangle) (1890)
John Williams
John Cyprian Phipps Williams (1922 - ) New Zealand cardiologist. Eponymously remembered for Williams syndrome (1961)
Elmer McKesson
Elmer Isaac “Ira” McKessen (1881-1935) was an inventor, physician and engineer. McKesson Intermittent ventilator, metabolor, and the nargraf