Manuel Martínez Curbelo
Pío Manuel Martínez Curbelo (1906–1962), Cuban anaesthesiologist who pioneered the first lumbar epidural catheter and published continuous epidural anaesthesia (1947–49).
Category LITFL
Leonid Rogozov
Leonid Rogozov (1934–2000): Soviet surgeon who performed a self-appendicectomy in Antarctica (1961) when evacuation was impossible—an iconic feat of austere medicine.
Alexander Wood
Alexander Wood (1817–1884), Scottish physician; popularised hypodermic morphine injection for neuralgia and helped establish the Wood syringe.
Francis Rynd
Francis Rynd (1801–1861), Irish surgeon who pioneered subcutaneous morphia injection for neuralgia (1844/1845) and described his cannula device in 1861.
Evan O’Neill Kane
Evan O’Neill Kane (1864–1932), American country surgeon. Railway accident specialist and medical inventor, famed for his 1921 auto-appendicectomy.
Fidel Pagés
Fidel Pagés (1886–1923): Spanish military surgeon who described “anestesia metamérica” (1921), an early, practical lumbar epidural technique.
Frédéric Justin Collet
Frédéric Justin Collet (1870–1964), Lyon physician and ENT professor; described the 1915 skull-base palsy of CN IX–XII later known as Collet–Sicard syndrome
Guenter Sprotte
Günter Sprotte (b. 1945), German anaesthetist who designed the Sprotte atraumatic spinal needle, reducing post–dural puncture headache and improving CSF flow.
Walter Stoeckel
Walter Stoeckel (1871–1961), German gynaecologist who advanced caudal epidural analgesia in labour (1909) and shaped radical vaginal surgery and teaching.
William T. Lemmon
William Thomas Lemmon (1896-1974), surgeon who pioneered continuous spinal anaesthesia, and the Lemmon mattress
Alberto Gutierrez
Alberto Gutiérrez (1892–1945), Argentine surgeon who described the epidural “hanging drop” sign (1933) and founded Argentina’s anaesthesia journal.
Niels Lauge-Hansen
Niels Lauge-Hansen (1899 – 1976) was a Danish Radiologist. Eponymously linked with the Lauge-Hansen classification of ankle fractures in 1950