Faget Sign
Faget Sign: Relative bradycardia in association with fever (Temperature-pulse dissociation). Originally described by Jean-Charles Faget in patients with yellow fever (1859)
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Liebermeister rule
Liebermeister rule: Defining the relationship between pulse frequency and body temperature in fever. Carl von Liebermeister (1833 - 1901)
Jean-Charles Faget
Jean-Charles Faget (1818 - 1884) was a French physician. Faget reported an exception to the Liebermeister rule in his description of yellow fever [Faget sign] in 1858
Letter From America
When you travel from Perth in Western Australia to San Francisco you are in for a long day...a forty hour day in fact, thanks to the arbitrary placement of the international dateline. I am here to meet emergency medicine edumactor extraordinaire Mel Herbert at the USC Essentials of Emergency Medicine extravaganza...
David Bayford
David Bayford (1739-1790) was an English surgeon and physician. Biography Medical Eponyms Bayford-Autenrieth dysphagia [aka Dysphagia lusoria] (1787; 1807) Dysphagia secondary to an aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) In February I76I, Bayford was present for an autopsy where an emaciated woman…
Peyronie’s disease
Peyronie disease refers to plaques (flat scar tissue) forming under the skin of the penis. The plaques can be palpated through the skin; are often painful; and can cause the penis to bend, shorten or become indented during erections.
Charles Macklin
Charles Clifford Macklin (1883-1959) was a Canadian pulmonologist. Macklin Effect (1939)
James Paget
Sir James Paget (1814 - 1899) was a renowned English surgeon. In a career spanning eight decades, with research and practice in surgery, as well as serving the royal family during Queen Victoria’s reign
EMA April 2015
Issue 2 (Vol. 27) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2015 published online 25 March. Editorial overview Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes
Ferdinand-Jean Darier
Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) was a Hungarian born, French dermatologist and physician. Affiliated with Darrier sign and Darier disease
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 272
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 272
Troubling Tachycardia
An ECG case of Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia focusing on two main causes: digoxin toxicity & catecholaminergic polymorphic VT - CPVT