Fernand Cathelin
Fernand Cathelin (1873–1960), Paris urologist who pioneered caudal epidural anaesthesia (Cathelin’s method) and designed the urine-divider and air cystoscope.
Category Medical Specialty
Charles Dotter
Charles T Dotter (1920–1985): father of interventional radiology; coronary imaging pioneer, 1964 angioplasty, catheter thrombolysis, and stents.
Théodore Tuffier
Théodore Tuffier (1857–1929): Paris surgeon and innovator; thoracic/cardiac pioneer, early open-chest massage, valve experiments, spinal anaesthesia and Tuffier’s line.
Cope’s Sign
Cardio-biliary reflex (“Cope sign”): gallbladder disease causing vagal bradycardia or AV block that mimics cardiac events, often with normal troponin.
Vincent Cope
Sir Vincent Zachary Cope (1881 – 1974) was a British physician and surgeon. Eponymously linked with Cope Psoas test and obturator test.
Eugen Aburel
Eugen Bogdan Aburel (1899-1975), Romanian obstetrician and gynaecologist. Pioneer of continuous epidural analgesia, and fertility-sparing cancer surgery
Max Samter
Max Samter (1908–1999), German born, American allergist. “Samter’s triad”—asthma, nasal polyps, and severe reactions to aspirin
Robert Andrew Hingson
Robert Andrew Hingson (1913-1996), American anesthesiologist, pioneer of continuous epidural analgesia; Hingson Peace Gun; humanitarian mass vaccination programs.
Salvador Gil Vernet
Salvador Gil Vernet (1892-1987), Spanish urologist. pioneer of functional pelvic anatomy, prostate zonal theory, continence mechanisms and anatomy-led urological surgery.
J. Leonard Corning
James Leonard Corning (1855 - 1923) was an American neurologist. Epidural block (1885); Regional anaesthesia (1885)
Edward Tuohy
Edward Boyce Tuohy (1908 – 1959) American anaesthesiologist. Best known for contribution to continuous epidural anaesthesia; Tuohy needle
Rolland J. Whitacre
Rolland John Whitacre (1909–1956), American anesthesiologist and inventor of the pencil-point spinal needle that reduced post-dural puncture headache.