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Alix Joffroy (1844 – 1908) 1

Alix Joffroy

Alix Joffroy (1844 - 1908) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. Eponymously affiliated with Joffroy sign in Graves ophthalmopathy

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Joffroy sign

Joffroy sign (1893): absent wrinkling of the forehead when a patient in patients Graves Ophthalmopathy looks up with the head bent forwards.

Howard Hailey

Biography Medical Eponyms Hailey-Hailey disease (Familial Benign Chronic Pemphigus) Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Biography Eponymous terms

Woltman sign 680

Woltman sign

Woltman sign of myxedema: Slowness of both the contraction and the relaxation of muscles in hypothyroid patients, best seen as the “hung-up” ankle jerk and occurring because of mechanical factors and slowness of contraction time, as in myotonia and pseudomyotonia

George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976) 340

George Hoyt Whipple

George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976) was an American physician, pathologist and medical researcher. 1934: Nobel Prize. Whipple disease (1907)