Frank Mallory
Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American pathologist; pioneer of histological stains, Mallory bodies in alcoholic liver disease
LITFL
Sergei Korsakoff
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (1854 - 1900) Серге́й Серге́евич Ко́рсаков Russian neuropsychiatrist, identified Korsakoff syndrome and pioneered humane psychiatric care and memory disorder research.
Moritz Roth
Moritz Roth (1839–1914), Swiss pathologist of Roth Spots. Advanced anatomical teaching and wrote a seminal biography of Vesalius, shaping modern medical historiography
Procedure: Speculum examination
Emergency Procedure, instructions and discussion: Speculum examination and removal of products, how (and when) to find the cervix in the emergency department.
Bell’s palsy
Bell’s palsy: Acute idiopathic unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve. Named after Sir Charles Bell and his description in 1827
Henry Pancoast
Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him
Pancoast Tumour
Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Pancoast Syndrome
Pancoast Syndrome occurs secondary to local compression of brachial plexus and sympathetic chain by superior (pulmonary) sulcus tumors.
Procedure: Speculum examination
Emergency Procedure: Speculum examination, how (and when) to find the cervix in the emergency department.
Frederic Cotton
Frederic Jay Cotton (1869–1939) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Cotton fracture (trimalleolar fracture) and Cotton-Loader position (hyper-flexed wrist with ulna deviation in closed reduction of distal radius fractures)
Precipitous Birth in the ED
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Precipitous delivery in the ED. Let’s face it, the three births you attended as a medical student don't really prepare you for this...
Karl Adolph von Basedow
Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799 – 1854) was a German general practitioner, surgeon and obstetrician. Described Basedow (Graves) disease 1840