MacDonald Critchley
Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997): Pioneering neurologist of higher brain function; author of The Parietal Lobes; leader, teacher, and medical humanist.
Category Medical Specialty
Charles E. Flowers Jr
Charles Ely Flowers Jr (1920-1999). American obstetrician-gynaecologist linked to continuous peridural anaesthesia and the Tuohy–Flowers epidural needle
History of Neuraxial Anaesthesia
History of neuraxial anaesthesia: milestones in spinal and epidural blockade from Koller and Corning to Quincke, Bier, Tuohy and Curbelo.
Hoffmann-Tinel sign
Hoffmann-Tinel sign is paresthesia in the distal cutaneous distribution of an injured peripheral nerve evoked by tapping on the nerve more proximally.
Paul Hoffmann
Paul Hoffmann (1884-1962), German neurophysiologist. Hoffmann-Tinel sign to assess nerve regeneration and Hoffmann reflex
Jules Tinel
Jules Tinel (1879–1952), French neurologist remembered for Tinel sign, nerve regeneration research and early work on phaeochromocytoma.
William Bainbridge
William Seaman Bainbridge (1870-1947), American surgeon, cancer educator, naval physician and early advocate of spinal analgesia in children.
CT Case 103
A 35 year old male presents with recurrent episodes of spontaneous bleeding from his right ear. What does the CT angiogram show?
CT Case 102
A 52 year old man is brought to hospital by ambulance complaining of 2 weeks of abdominal pain and constipation. What does the abdominal CT show?
Achille Mario Dogliotti
Achille Mario Dogliotti (1897-1966), Italian surgeon. Pioneer of epidural anaesthesia (Dogliotti’s principle), pain therapy, cardiac surgery, and total extracorporeal blood circulation
Auto-appendicectomy
Auto-appendicectomy: three landmark self-appendectomy cases—Kane (1921), McLaren (1944), Rogozov (1961)—and what they reveal about surgery in extremis.
Fernand Cathelin
Fernand Cathelin (1873–1960), Paris urologist who pioneered caudal epidural anaesthesia (Cathelin’s method) and designed the urine-divider and air cystoscope.