Category Medical Specialty

Charles Scott Sherrington

Biography Born 27 November 1857, Islington, London Died 4 March 1952, Eastbourne, England Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Major Publications Controversies References

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Lachman Test

Lachman test is a clinical test used to diagnose injury of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Eponymised to John W Lachman, first described by GC Noulis

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John W Lachman

John W Lachman (1919 – 2007) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Lachman test of knee ligament stability

Henry Turner

Henry Hubert Turner (1892 - 1970) was an American endocrinologist. Remembered for Turner syndrome and description in 1938

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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]

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Franz Zehetmayer

Franz Zehetmayer (1813 - *1846) was an Austrian physician. Pericarditis, pericardial effusion and the genu-pectorale position