Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866) was an English physician and pathologist. Eponym: Hodgkin disease (1832); Key-Hodgkin murmur (1827)
Category Cardiology
Camillo Bozzolo
Camillo Bozzolo (1845-1920) was an Italian pathologist and physician. Bozzolo sign (1887) Visible pulsation of the arteries within the nasal mucosa.
Giulio Ceradini
Giulio Ceradini (1844 - 1894) was an Italian physiologist. illustrated the mechanism of closure of the semilunar valves
Angelo Mosso
Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) was an Italian physiologist, archaeologist, politician, mountain climber and teacher.
George A. Gibson
George Alexander Gibson (1854 – 1913) was a Scottish physician. Eponymously affiliated with the Gibson murmur (1906)
Ottomar Rosenbach
Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach (1851 - 1907) was a German physician. Rosenbach sign of aortic regurgitation (1878), Rosenbach sign of autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Rosenbach-Semon Law (1880), and Rosenbach test (1880).
Still’s murmur
Still's Murmur ejection systolic murmur first described in 1909 by English pediatrician Sir George Frederic Still KCVO (1868 – 1941)
George Frederic Still
Sir George Frederic Still (1868-1941) English paediatrician. Described as the 'father of British paediatrics'. Still's disease, Still's murmur
Joseph Skoda
Joseph Škoda (1805–1881) was a Czech physician. Eponym: Skodaic ressonance (1837) - third class of percussion sounds
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani (1737 - 1798) Italian obstetrician, surgeon and anatomist. Discovered the physiological action of electricity and demonstrated the existence of natural electric current in animal tissue - "the electrical forces in muscular movements" or the 'animal electricity'
Austin Flint Murmur
Austin Flint Murmur: Mid diastolic, low pitch rumble heard best at the apex. Absence of opening snap/loud S1 distinguishes from that of mitral stenosis
Austin Flint
Austin Flint (1812-1886) American Physician. Eponym - mid-diastolic aortic regurgitant murmur heard at the apex - Austin Flint Murmur 1862