Walter Holbrook Gaskell
Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847-1914) was a British physiologist central to our current understanding of cardiac physiology
Category Cardiology
Pierre Barrère
Pierre Barrère (1690 - 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion
John Osborn
John J Osborn (1917 – 2014) was an American intensivist, pediatrician and inventor. Eponym: 'current of injury' Osborn wave - 1953
Arthur Ernest Sansom
Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838 - 1907) was an English physician and anaesthetist.
James Hope
Biography Born 23 February 1801 Stockport, England 1825 – Medical degree, Edinburgh University 1828 – MD Edin LRCP 1839 – Full physician at St. George’s Hospital 1840 – MRCS FRS FRCP Died 12 May 1841 of pulmonary tuberculosis Medical Eponyms…
History of the Electrocardiogram
A brief history of the ECG and electrocardiography and the eponymous names behind the ECG/EKG...
James Sanders
Biography Medical Eponyms Sanders sign (1823) The undulatory character of the cardiac impulse in the epigastric region, indicative of adherent pericardium (l’adhérence du péricarde). Specifically the presence of a depression occurring under the left ribs and in the epigastrium during…
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (1796 - 1881) was a French physician.
Charles James Blasius Williams
Biography Born 3 February 1805 in the Hungerford almshouse in Wiltshire, England 1824 – Medical degree from the University of Edinburgh 1833 – Physician at St. George’s University, London 1835 – Fellow of the Royal Society 1840 – Fellow of…
Maurice Lev
Maurice Lev (1908 – 1994) was an American cardiologist. Eponymously affiliated with Lenègre-Lev disease disease described in 1964
Second-degree Atrioventricular block
Eponymythology of Second-degree Atrioventricular (AV) block including Luciani, Galabin, Wenckebach, Hay and Mobitz
Sunao Tawara
Sunao Tawara 田原 淳, (1873 - 1952) was a Japanese pathologist. Aschoff-Tawara node (1906)