First disease
Measles (First Disease): classic childhood exanthem caused by Morbillivirus, with high infectivity, pathognomonic signs, and vaccine-preventable
Category Medical Specialty
Clement Dukes
Clement Dukes (1845–1925), English physician and school health reformer, proposed "Dukes' disease" and transformed adolescent medical care in public schools.
McGinn-White pattern
S1Q3T3 McGinn-White pattern indicates right heart strain and predicts severe PE outcomes. ECG sign of pulmonary embolism described in 1935.
Alexis Littré
Alexis Littré (1654–1726), French anatomist; Littré’s hernia, glands, and operation; anatomical insights with lasting surgical impact
Thomas S. Cullen
Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869 – 1953) was a Canadian gynecologist. Eponymously affiliated with Cullen sign (1918)
George Chance
George Quentin Chance was an British radiologist. Eponymously associated with the Chance fracture (1948) transverse fracture through a vertebral body
Yvonne Cossart
Australian virologist Yvonne Cossart (1934–2014), pioneer of parvovirus B19 research, teacher, and reformer of medical education.
James Ramsay Hunt
James Ramsay Hunt (1874-1937) American neurologist. Renowned for his contributions to the field of neurology. Several conditions bear his name including Ramsay Hunt syndrome (1907)
Dieulafoy Lesion
Dieulafoy’s lesion: minute gastric erosion over a large arteriole, causing massive GI bleeding. First defined as exulceratio simplex in 1898.
Georges Dieulafoy
Georges Dieulafoy (1839–1911), French physician, pioneer of gastroenterology; remembered for Dieulafoy lesion, triad(s), and aspirator
Eugen von Bamberger
Eugen von Bamberger (1858–1921), Austrian internist; co-described Marie–Bamberger syndrome (hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy); pioneer of clinical diagnostics.
Robert Todd
Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) was an Irish physician. Provided early depictions of migraine, peripheral neuritis, and postepileptic paralysis (Todd's palsy). He also gave an important discourse on locomotor ataxy (tabes dorsalis).