Paul Langerhans
Paul Wilhelm Heinrich Langerhans (1847 - 1888) was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist. Langerhans cell (1868) of the immune system, and islets of Langerhans (1869) in the pancreas
Category Endocrinology
Anne P. Forbes
Anne Pappenheimer Forbes (1911 - 1992) was an American endocrinologist and physician. Forbes-Albright Syndrome 1954
Ingegerd Larsen
Ingegerd Frøyshov Larsen (1937 - ) Norwegian physician and endocrinologist. Hansen-Larsen-Berg syndrome (1976)
Alix Joffroy
Alix Joffroy (1844 - 1908) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. Eponymously affiliated with Joffroy sign in Graves ophthalmopathy
Joffroy sign
Joffroy sign (1893): absent wrinkling of the forehead when a patient in patients Graves Ophthalmopathy looks up with the head bent forwards.
Esther L. Bloomberg
Esther Lillian Bloomberg (1907 - 1997) was an American technical chemist. Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease (1937)
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
Henry Woltman
Henry Woltman (1889 - 1964) was an American neurologist. Eponym: Woltman sign of myxedema (1924/1956) published by Chaney
Ruth Illig
Ruth Illig (1924 - 2017) was a German pediatric endocrinologist. Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism; Illig syndrome (1970)
Fuller Albright
Fuller Albright (1900 - 1969) was an American endocrinologist.
Thomas Addison
Thomas Addison (1795 - 1860) was an English physician.
The Cretin and the Pharoah
Dr Duncan's legacy in a remote New Guinea valley