Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), American neurologist and Civil War doctor, pioneered causalgia, phantom limb, rest cure, and erythromelalgia
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Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer (1836 – 1910) German Surgical instrument manufacturer. His wife Jeanne Amélie Lüer invented the original Lüer syringe in 1895
William Hammond
William A. Hammond (1828–1900), U.S. Surgeon General and neurology pioneer, described athetosis, reformed military medicine, and authored a key neurology textbook.
Precipitous Birth in the ED
Emergency Procedure: Precipitous Birth in the ED. Let’s face it, the three births you attended as a medical student don't really prepare you for this...
William Cadogan
William Cadogan (1711–1797), physician-reformer; wrote the 1748 Essay on Nursing and a contentious 1771 gout treatise; pioneer of childcare and lifestyle medicine
Oskar Kreis
Oskar Kreis (1872–1958), Swiss obstetrician who pioneered obstetric spinal analgesia with intrathecal cocaine (1900), enabling forceps delivery and shaping neuraxial practice
Giovanni Mingazzini
Giovanni Mingazzini (1859-1929) Founder of the Roman School of Neurology; described lenticular hemiparesis, Mingazzini test, and Mingazzini field; pioneer in aphasia and cerebellar anatomy.
Angelo L. Soresi
Angelo Luigi Soresi (1877–1951), Italian-born American surgeon who described peridural (epidural) anaesthesia and an early “hanging drop” endpoint for locating the epidural space (1932).
James Sherren
James Sherren (1872-1945) British General surgeon. Eponym: Sherren's triangle - area of hyperaesthesia associated with appendicitis
Arthur Legg
Arthur Thornton Legg (1874–1939), American orthopaedic surgeon, described Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease, clarifying its non-tuberculous origin
Jacques Calvé
Jacques Calvé (1875–1954), French orthopaedist. Defined vertebra plana, advanced spinal TB care, and described Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease
Georg Perthes
Georg Perthes (1869–1927), German surgeon. Described Perthes’ test for varicose veins (1895) and arthritis deformans juvenilis, later known as Perthes disease (1910)