Barnett A. Greene
Barnett Alan Greene (1907-1999) American anaesthesiologist. Use of fine-gauge obstetric spinal needles and reducing post-spinal headache.
Category Medical Specialty
Herbert M. Greene
Herbert Merton Greene (1878-1962), American physician who linked post-lumbar puncture headache to dural trauma and designed the Greene needle
Arthur Läwen
Arthur Georg Läwen (1876–1958), German surgeon. Anaesthesia pioneer sacral/extradural anaesthesia, paravertebral block, novocaine, curare and artificial ventilation.
MacDonald Critchley
Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997): Pioneering neurologist of higher brain function; author of The Parietal Lobes; leader, teacher, and medical humanist.
Charles E. Flowers Jr
Charles Ely Flowers Jr (1920-1999). American obstetrician-gynaecologist linked to continuous peridural anaesthesia and the Tuohy–Flowers epidural needle
Bassler Sign
Bassler sign: 1913 palpation technique for chronic appendicitis, early eponym use, anatomical rationale and limits of diagnostic evidence.
Alders sign
Alders sign: a positional tenderness test in pregnancy. Explore its 1951 origins, examination technique, role in appendicitis and limited diagnostic evidence.
Cope psoas test
Cope psoas test: explore the original 1921 description, modern examination techniques, historical variations and diagnostic accuracy in acute appendicitis.
History of Neuraxial Anaesthesia
History of neuraxial anaesthesia: milestones in spinal and epidural blockade from Koller and Corning to Quincke, Bier, Tuohy and Curbelo.
Cope obturator test
Cope obturator test: original 1919 description, modern examination technique, diagnostic accuracy and historical changes in this appendicitis sign.
Jacob Moritz Blumberg
Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873–1955): German surgeon who described rebound tenderness, developed surgical gloves and pioneered gynaecological instruments.
Blumberg sign
Blumberg sign (rebound tenderness): original 1907 description, Shchetkin attribution, modern examination technique and diagnostic accuracy in appendicitis.