Category Medical Specialty

Marcus Gerbezius

Marcus Gerbezius (1658-1718) was a Slovenian physician. Provided first description of Stokes-Adams syndrome in 1717

Thomas Cooley

Thomas Benton Cooley (1871 - 1945) was an American pediatrician and haematologist. Cooley Anemia (1925) [Thalassemia major]

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Ida Bianco

Ida Bianco Silverstroni (1917 - 2006) was an Italian physician and haematologist. Silvestroni-Bianco anaemia (1948); heterozygotous thalassaemia

Petrus Waardenburg

Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886 - 1979) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and geneticist. Waardenburg syndrome (1951); Waardenburg-Jonkers disease (1961); and Shah-Waardenburg syndrome (1981)

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Pel-Ebstein fever

Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1885 – Pieter Klazes Pel first described this phenomenon in Berliner klinische Wochenschrift. A 25-year-old paper maker died after a four-month illness, in which five 10-30 day episodes of fever, each…