Hugh Owen Thomas
Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was a Welsh Orthopaedic Surgeon. Thomas knee splint (1865); Thomas Test and Thomas wrench for bonesetting
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Once Were Warriors
Blood slowly dripped from two linear slits on the left side of the man's chest. He focused on the doctor with a wide eyed stare and spoke in an anxious whisper: "Doc, don't let me die... don't let me die, doc."
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 254
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned medical trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 254
Schrödinger’s Fence
Schrödinger’s Fence...or, where we currently sit on the matter of thrombolysis in Acute Stroke. An Opinion Piece on IST-3
Treating serious frostbite
Frostbite isn’t just limited to climbers. Many people live in climates where the homeless, mentally ill, or alcoholic patients spend the night outside and have the possibility of developing frostbite. Failure to diagnose or appropriately treat frostbite can lead to…
Eduard Heinrich Henoch
Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820 – 1910) was a German Paediatrician. Student of Johann Lukas Schönlein, he extended the clinical features of childhood purpura and is eponymously affiliated with Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) or IgA Vasculitis, is the most common childhood vasculitis. There is a tetrad of the core clinical manifestations
Huber-point needle
Hypodermic needle (needle which enters the skin) Originally described in 1946 by Ralph Huber. More commonly known as the Tuohy Needle
Own the Airway!
The LITFL team have scoured the web to find the best collection of online instructional videos known to man or woman to help you 'own the airway'!
Richard F. Ashman
Richard F. Ashman (1890-1970) was an American physiologist. Eponymously affiliated with Ashman phenomenon he first described in 1947
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.
John Addison Fordyce
John Addison Fordyce (1858 –1925) was an American dermatologist. Eponymously affiliated with Fox–Fordyce disease