Katherine Berg
Katherine Olga Berg Canadian physical therapist. Berg Balance Scale (1989)
Category Neurology
Gustave Roussy
Gustave Roussy (1874 - 1948) was a Swiss-French neuropathologist.
Jean Lhermitte
Jean-Jacques Lhermitte (1877 - 1959) was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist.
Dorothea W. Barthel
Dorothea Wilhelmine (née Barthel) Beauchamp (1911 - 2003) was an American physical therapist. Barthel index of functional independence (1965)
Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham (1624 - 1689) was an English physician.
Pierre Adolphe Piorry
Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Oven V. Piorry. Biographies des célébrités médicales, . 1867 Sakula A. Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879): pioneer of percussion and pleximetry. Thorax. 1979; 34(5): 575-581.
Gowers sign
Physical examination finding seen in patients with proximal weakness of the extensor muscles of the thighs and is most often associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Caspar Bartholin
Biography Born 12 February 1585 in Malmø, Scania 1610 – Doctor of Medicine. Defended thesis Paradoxa CCXL: pathologica, simiotica, diaetetica…at the University of Basel 1613 – Professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen 1624 – Professor of divinity at the University of Copenhagen;…
Guido Werdnig
Guido Werdnig (1844 - 1919) was an Austrian neurologist. Werdnig–Hoffmann syndrome (1891) [Hereditary motor neuropathy type 1]
Franz Gall
Biography Born 9 March 1758 in Tiefenbronn, Baden 1785 – MD, University of Vienna 1794 – Nominated as personal physician of Emperor Franz II – but declined 1802 – Gall’s views on cranioscopy defining human nature were condemned by the Austrian…
Ballistically Potent Vertigo
A 50 year-old woman sees the world spin round when she hangs up her washing. Can you make the diagnosis and effect a cure?
John Call Dalton Jr
John Call Dalton Jr (1825 - 1889) was an American physiologist.