Judy Waterlow
Judith Amy Waterlow. English nurse and educator. Waterlow created the Waterlow Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment/Policy in 1985, and updated it in 2005.
Category LITFL
Erna Christensen
Biography Medical Eponyms Alper disease (1931) Major Publications References
Gustave Roussy
Gustave Roussy (1874 - 1948) was a Swiss-French neuropathologist.
Jean Lhermitte
Jean-Jacques Lhermitte (1877 - 1959) was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist.
Friedrich Trendelenburg
Biography Born May 24, 1844 in Berlin, Germany the son of the famous German philosopher Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802-1872) 1861 – his father thought him not yet ready to enter university, and sent him to Edinburgh to teach German to…
Dorothea W. Barthel
Dorothea Wilhelmine (née Barthel) Beauchamp (1911 - 2003) was an American physical therapist. Barthel index of functional independence (1965)
Thomas Spens
Thomas Spens (1763-1842) was a Scottish physician. One of the first to provide a written report on what is now termed Stokes-Adams syndrome or cardiovascular syncope
Łucja Frey
Łucja Frey-Gottesman (1889 - 1942) was a Polish physician and neurologist. Frey syndrome (1923); auriculotemporal syndrome
Ruth Illig
Ruth Illig (1924 - 2017) was a German pediatric endocrinologist. Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism; Illig syndrome (1970)
Étienne Esquirol
Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Major Publications References
Marcus Gerbezius
Marcus Gerbezius (1658-1718) was a Slovenian physician. Provided first description of Stokes-Adams syndrome in 1717
Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham (1624 - 1689) was an English physician.