Ludwig Traube
Ludwig Traube (1818 - 1876) was a German physician. Traube space; Traube pulse (pulsus bigeminus); Traube sign; and Doppelton
Category Medical Specialty
Rosenbach disease
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1873 – Tilbury Fox (1836-1879) first to describe what is now generally designated as erysipeloid. In 1873 Fox briefly described two instances of an eruption clinically conforming with that disease. 1873…
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity
This illustration summarise the effects of local anaesthetic toxicity through anthropomorphization - Kloss and Bruce Tox in the Box Flashcard
Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning
Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning is by far my favourite illustration, where we once again see Travis reprise his role as “guy on the toilet”.
Cyanide Poisoning
Cyanide poisoning - complete with lamb wearing silk stockings sitting in a cheap polyurethane chair atop a pile of burning tires...
Wide, Complex and Troublesome
A regular wide complex tachycardia. What is the role of adenosine in diagnosis and treatment? What are the other options?
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff (1937 – ) Bulgarian born, Canadian qualified, American practicing endocrinologist describing Thyroid hormone resistance (TRH) in 1967
Caustic Ingestion: Acid
Toilet bowl cleaners in the United States tend to be acidic in nature so I chose the ‘Ty-D-Bol Man’ as our victim for this Caustic Ingestion flashcard.
Food allergy amplification all the RAGE
Could false alarmin be the missing link in the rise of food allergies and the anaphylactic march?
Ultrasound Case 088
I stepped off my back decking into a hole the dog had carefully manicured in the lawn. A combination of plantar flexion and inversion resulted in a rather swollen ankle you see in the first image. I managed it conservatively but at 6 weeks it still felt a bit boggy and unstable. A case of physician scan thyself
François Chaussier
François Chaussier (1746-1828) was a French anatomist and physician. He proposed the use of oxygen in pediatric resus (1781) and the laryngeal intubation (1806)
Arsenic Poisoning
Arsenic is often used as a rat poison; it causes glove and stocking paraesthesia, scaly skin and garlic breath. I thought it was fun drawing a sexy rat with garlic breath...