Sir William Stokes (surgeon)
Sir William Stokes (1838 – 1900) was an Irish surgeon, son of William Stokes (1804–1878) who was a famaous Irish physician.
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Dorothy Reed
Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall (1874 - 1964) was an American physician, pediatrician and public health specialist. Reed-Sternberg cells (1902)
Mette Warburg
Mette Warburg (1926 - 2015) was a Danish ophthalmologist; leader in the fields of pediatric ophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics. Walker-Warburg syndrome (1971)
Ruth Wynne-Davies
Ruth Wynne-Davies (1926 – 2012) was an English orthopedic surgeon and geneticist. Wynne-Davies Criteria for Ligamentous Laxity (1970)
Maude Abbott
Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (1869 - 1940) was a Canadian physician, cardiologist and pathologist. Rokitansky-Maude Abbott syndrome (1924)
Rivero-Carvallo sign
Accentuation of the murmur of tricuspid stenosis with inspiration described by Mexican cardiologist José Manuel Rivero Carvallo (1905–1993) in 1946
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 322
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 322 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF
Mary Broadfoot Walker
Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888 - 1974) was a Scottish physician. Mary Walker effect (1934); neostigmine and myasthenia gravis
José Manuel Rivero-Carvallo
José Manuel Rivero-Carvallo (1905-1993) Mexican cardiologist. Rivero Carvallo sign (1946), enhanced murmur of tricuspid regurgitation on inspiration
Emma Call
Emma Louise Call (1847 - 1937) was an American physician and obstetrician. Call-Exner bodies (1875)
Augusta Klumpke
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859 - 1927) was an American neurologist. Klumpke palsy (1885)
Marie Boivin
Marie Anne Victoire (née Gillian) Boivin (1773 - 1841) was a French midwife. Boivin Intropelvimeter; Boivin Bivalve Vaginal Speculum (1825)