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Charles Lockwood

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Charles Barrett Lockwood (1856 – 1914) was an English surgeon. Lockwood sign of chronic appendicitis, described by Colt in 1932

Ottomar Rosenbach

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Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach (1851 – 1907) was a German physician. Rosenbach sign of aortic regurgitation (1878), Rosenbach sign of autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Rosenbach-Semon Law (1880), and Rosenbach test (1880).

Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov

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Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov (Дмитрий Алексеевич Арапов) (1897 – 1984) was a Russian military surgeon. Arapov contracture in appendicitis

Capgras syndrome

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Capgras syndrome: uncommon syndrome in which a patient has a delusional belief that a person, usually a family member or friend, has been replaced by an imposter.

Joseph Capgras

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French psychiatrist, Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (1873-1950) best known for his description ‘syndrome d’illusion des sosies’, Capgras syndrome in 1923

Ernest William Goodpasture

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Biography Born 17 October 1886, Montgomery County, Tennessee 1903-07 – Completed B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee 1908-12 – Graduated with M.D. degree from the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 1912-15 – Further postgraduate training supported by a Rockefeller Fellowship as a fellow, instructor, then resident pathologist under Nobel Laureate George Whipple, in the […]