Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Brissaud–Sicard syndrome (1908) A crossed pontine syndrome characterised by ipsilateral facial spasm (hemifacial spasm/cramps) with contralateral hemiparesis, due to a lesion involving the pons (classically the basilar/anterolateral pons affecting corticospinal pathways with irritation of facial nerve…
William Cowper (1666-1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist. Cowper's gland and Cowper's fluid 1699 as well as defining capillaries, atherosclerosis and aortic stenosis
Emergency Procedure: Emergency department Burr holes (Craniostomy). That’s right we are drilling through skulls to save lives!
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Difficult male catheters - We recommend a Seldinger technique
Emergency Procedure: Emergency department Burr holes (Craniostomy). That’s right we are drilling through skulls to save lives!
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was an English neurophysiologist. Sherrington’s Laws (1897–1900); Liddell–Sherrington Reflex (1924) and defining the synapse
Jean-Athanase Sicard (1872–1929): French neurologist; caudal epidural pioneer (1901), Lipiodol epidurography/myelography with Forestier, and Collet–Sicard syndrome.
Emergency Procedure: Male Seldinger catheter. Difficult male catheters - We recommend a Seldinger technique
Aagot Christie Løken (1911–2007), Norwegian paediatrician; Senior–Løken syndrome, linking juvenile nephronophthisis with retinal dystrophy.
Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878) was a was a German anatomist and physiologist. Weber law and Weber test for hearing assessment
Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962) English physician and dermatologist; Rendu-Osler-Weber disease; Sturge-Weber syndrome
Sir Hermann David Weber (1823–1918) – German-born physician in London; pioneer of open-air treatment for tuberculosis; co-author of The Mineral Waters and Health Resorts of Europe; namesake of Weber’s syndrome; knighted for services to medicine.