Category Neurology
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Meige’s syndrome

Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History Associated Persons Henry Meige (1866 – 1940) Alternative names Brueghel’s syndrome Blepharospasm-oromandibular dystonia syndrome Controversies Did they first describe or popularise or plagiarise? References Altrocci PH. Spontaneous oral-facial dyskinesia. Archives of…

Johann Hoffmann (1857 – 1919)

Johann Hoffmann

Johann Hoffmann (1857-1919) was a German neurologist. The first 'pure' neurologist in Germany. Hoffmann reflex; Werdnig–Hoffmann syndrome

Vertigo Big 3

Vertigo the Big 3

Dr Peter Johns, Canadian emergency physician and dizziness demystifier, has made a video on how to diagnose ‘The Big 3 of Vertigo” in the ED

Joseph Babinski

Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (1857-1932) was a French neurologist. Multiple eponyms including Babinski reflex, Babinski sign, Babinski syndrome

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (1845 - 1917) 340

Louis Landouzy

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (1845-1917) was a French neurologist.. Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome and Landouzy syndrome

Ludwig Edinger

Ludwig Edinger (1855-1918) was a German neurologist and anatomist. Edinger demonstrated the nucleus in the foetus in 1885; and Westphal in the adult in 1887.

Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne

Biography Medical Eponyms Landouzy-Déjérine syndrome First to describe and publish 9 cases of Landouzy-Déjérine syndrome (facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy) in the third edition of De l’électrisation localisée in 1872: 219-220 Key Medical Attributions Duchenne smile Controversies Major Publications References Biography Eponymous…