Faget Sign
Faget Sign: Relative bradycardia in association with fever (Temperature-pulse dissociation). Originally described by Jean-Charles Faget in patients with yellow fever (1859)
Liebermeister rule
Liebermeister rule: Defining the relationship between pulse frequency and body temperature in fever. Carl von Liebermeister (1833 - 1901)
Jean-Charles Faget
Jean-Charles Faget (1818 - 1884) was a French physician. Faget reported an exception to the Liebermeister rule in his description of yellow fever [Faget sign] in 1858
The rule of 4 of the brainstem
Peter Gates rule of 4 of the brainstem illustrated in a single diagram...why and how?
Brainstem Rules of 4
Gates described a simplified method for answering the question 'Where is the lesion?' using only the parts of the brainstem that we actually examine during a clinical examination to understand brainstem vascular syndromes.
Letter From America
When you travel from Perth in Western Australia to San Francisco you are in for a long day...a forty hour day in fact, thanks to the arbitrary placement of the international dateline. I am here to meet emergency medicine edumactor extraordinaire Mel Herbert at the USC Essentials of Emergency Medicine extravaganza...
David Bayford
David Bayford (1739 – 1790) was an English surgeon and physician. In February I76I, Bayford (1739-1790) was present for an autopsy where an emaciated woman (Jane Fordham) of 62 died of ‘obstructed deglutition’ of many years standing. Dr Lucas performing…
Adolphe-Marie Gubler
Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821 - 1879) was a French physician and therapeutic pharmacologist. Millard-Gubler syndrome (1856)
Peyronie’s disease
Description Lapeyronie disease History 1561 – There are myriad potential 16th century descriptions of Peyronie’s disease brilliantly reviewed by Musitelli, et al. They conclude that Gabriele Falloppio (1523 – 1562) provided the only potential description of Peyronie’s as palpable scar…
Charles Macklin
Charles Clifford Macklin (1883-1959) was a Canadian pulmonologist. Macklin Effect (1939)
James Paget
Sir James Paget (1814 - 1899) was a renowned English surgeon. In a career spanning eight decades, with research and practice in surgery, as well as serving the royal family during Queen Victoria’s reign
EMA April 2015
Issue 2 (Vol. 27) of Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA Journal) for 2015 published online 25 March. Editorial overview Andrew Gosbell & Geoff Hughes