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James Mackenzie

Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925) was a Scottish cardiologist and General Practitioner. Mackenzie was a pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias known as the father of British cardiology

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Howship-Romberg sign

Description Pain and paraesthesia along the inner (medial) aspect of the thigh, down to the knee; and pain on internal rotation of the hip along the distribution of the obturator nerve. Caused by compression of the obturator nerve most commonly…

Oskar Kobyliński

Carl Oscar Alexander von Kobyliński (1856 - 1926) was a Polish-Baltic German general practitioner. First description of Noonan syndrome (1893)