Henri Huchard
Henri Huchard (1844–1910), French cardiologist at Necker, defined “cardio-arterial” disease, described Huchard’s sign, and helped shape early hypertension care.
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Will Pickles
W.N. Pickles (1885–1969), rural GP and epidemiologist, defined Bornholm disease in Britain and shaped modern public health through detailed field observation.
Texidor’s Twinge
Texidor’s Twinge (Precordial Catch Syndrome): benign, sharp chest pain in youth, first described in 1892, clarified by Miller, Texidor, and Asher in the 1950s.
William H. Park
William H. Park (1863–1939), NYC bacteriologist who advanced diphtheria antitoxin, milk safety, and defined ethical dilemmas in the case of Typhoid Mary.
Ejner Sylvest
Ejner Oluf Sørensen Sylvest (1880-1972) Danish physician named and defined Bornholm disease, framing epidemic pleurodynia decades before its viral cause was confirmed.
Bornholm disease
Acute, transient viral myositis involving intercostal and abdominal muscles associated with Coxsackievirus B. Eponym: Ejner Sylvest (1930)
Axel Fugl-Meyer
Biographical Timeline Medical Eponyms Fugl-Meyer Assessment of sensorimotor recovery after stroke The Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) is a clinician-administered, stroke-specific measure of impairment that evaluates motor function, sensation, balance, passive joint movement and joint pain. Its motor component is usually divided…
Name that murmur
Eponymythology: heart murmur eponyms and named cardiac murmurs. Related eponyms, the person behind their origin, their relevance today, and modern terminology.
Signe Brunnstrom
Signe Brunnstrom (1898–1988), Swedish-American physical therapist who shaped clinical kinesiology, amputee rehabilitation, and stroke recovery staging.
Echo basics: Key concepts
Echocardiography basics and the differences between 2D imaging, M-mode, pulsed wave Doppler, continuous wave Doppler, and tissue Doppler imaging.
Thomas E. Twitchell
Thomas Evans Twitchell (1923-2017) defined sequential motor recovery after hemiplegia, shaping Brunnstrom staging and Fugl-Meyer assessment.
Airway – Cricothyroidotomy (surgical)
Emergency procedure, instructions and discussion: Surgical Cricothyroidotomy - inability to oxygenate and ventilate with (BVM, LMA, ETT) and age >10years