Category LITFL

Newton Browder

Newton C Browder (1893-1969) was an American physician. Eponymously remembered for the Lund and Browder Chart estimating the total body surface area affected in the management of burns.

Charles Baxter

Charles Rufus Baxter (1929-2005) was an American physician. Baxter made significant advances in the treatment of burn victims and trauma procedures introducing the Parkland formula in 1968.

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Behçet Disease

Behçet disease: chronic, multisystemic inflammatory condition involving small and large vessels of unknown aetiology. Characterised by the triad of recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, and iridocyclitis with or without hypopyon.

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Hulûsi Behçet

Hulusi Behçet (1889-1948) was a Turkish dermatologist. Behçet disease (1936) ‘triple symptom complex’ of mouth aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, and recurrent iritis

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William P. Hort

William Peter Hort (1799-1852) was an English born, American physician; one of the earliest clinical case reports in America on the use of oral charcoal as an antidote for acute poisoning

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Charles Bertrand

Charles AHA Bertrand (1777-1849) was a French physician; Least recognised for his self-experimentation with charcoal as an antidote for ingested poisonings.

Ivor Lewis (1895–1982)

Ivor Lewis

Ivor Lewis (1895–1982) was a Welsh surgeon. Eponymously remembered for 1946 description of Ivor Lewis Oesophagectomy

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Sister Mary Joseph

Sister Mary Joseph (Julia Dempsey) (1856 - 1939) was an American Catholic nun, nurse, and hospital administrator. Sister Mary Joseph sign (1928)

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William Edwards Ladd

William Edwards Ladd (1880-1967) was an American paediatric surgeon. The father of paediatric surgery. Ladd bands, Ladd operation, Ladd syndrome (1932)