Category Medical Specialty
Numbered diseases of childhood THIRD DISEASE 1200

Third disease

Mild viral exanthem in children; dangerous in pregnancy. Rubella causes rash and lymphadenopathy, with congenital infection leading to CRS.

Numbered diseases of childhood SECOND DISEASE 680

Second disease

Scarlet fever (second disease). Contagious GABHS infection in kids under 10 with sore throat or rash; caused by S. pyogenes strains producing erythrogenic toxin.

Numbered disease of childhood FIRST DISEASE 680

First disease

Measles (First Disease): classic childhood exanthem caused by Morbillivirus, with high infectivity, pathognomonic signs, and vaccine-preventable

Clement Dukes

Clement Dukes (1845–1925), English physician and school health reformer, proposed "Dukes' disease" and transformed adolescent medical care in public schools.

Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869-1953) 680

Thomas S. Cullen

Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869 – 1953) was a Canadian gynecologist. Eponymously affiliated with Cullen sign (1918)

eponym LITFL 340

George Chance

George Quentin Chance was an British radiologist. Eponymously associated with the Chance fracture (1948) transverse fracture through a vertebral body

Yvonne Edna Cossart (1934-2014) 680

Yvonne Cossart

Yvonne Edna Cossart (1934-2014) was an Australian virologist. In 1975, Cossart and her colleagues recognised parvovirus B19

James Ramsay Hunt (1874-1937) 680

James Ramsay Hunt

James Ramsay Hunt (1874-1937) American neurologist. Renowned for his contributions to the field of neurology. Several conditions bear his name including Ramsay Hunt syndrome (1907)

Dieulafoy Lesion 680

Dieulafoy Lesion

Dieulafoy’s lesion: minute gastric erosion over a large arteriole, causing massive GI bleeding. First defined as exulceratio simplex in 1898.

Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) 680

Robert Todd

Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) was an Irish physician. Provided early depictions of migraine, peripheral neuritis, and postepileptic paralysis (Todd's palsy). He also gave an important discourse on locomotor ataxy (tabes dorsalis).