Marie Colinet
Marie Colinet von Hilden (c1560 - c1640) was a Swiss midwife and surgeon. First recorded ophthalmic extraction of metal from a patients eye with a magnet (1624)
Category Obstetrics Gynaecology
Cullen sign
Cullen sign: superficial bruising in the subcutaneous fat around the umbilicus. 1918 Thomas Cullen (1869-1953) ruptured ectopic pregnancy
Priscilla White
Priscilla White (1900 - 1989) was an American physician. White Classification of Diabetes in Pregnancy (1949, 1965, 1978)
Thomas Stephen Cullen
Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869 – 1953) was a Canadian gynecologist. Eponymously affiliated with Cullen sign (1918)
William McRoberts
William Alexander McRoberts Jr (1914 - 2006) was an American obstetrician and gynaecologist. McRoberts Manoeuvre (1983) in shoulder dystocia
William Zavanelli
William Angelo Zavanelli (1926 - ) American obstetrician and gynaecologist. Zavanelli Manoeuvre (1978) in shoulder dystocia
Alan Rubin
Alan Judah Rubin (1923 - 2011) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Rubin Manoeuvre (1964) shoulder dystocia
Ina Mae Gaskin
Ina Mae (née Middleton) Gaskin (1940 - ) American midwife. Gaskin (all-fours) manoeuvre 1976; The Farm
Charles Woods
Charles Edwin Woods (1888 - 1946) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Woods Screw Manoeuvre (1943) in shoulder dystocia
Stabler Sign
Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis in the inguinal-pubic area associated with ectopic pregnancy. Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902–1967)
Francis Edward Stabler
Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902 – 1967) English surgeon, obstetrician and gynaecologist. Eponym: Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis
Emma Call
Emma Louise Call (1847 - 1937) was an American physician and obstetrician. Call-Exner bodies (1875)