Tag Bornholm disease
Bornholm disease 2 680

Bornholm disease

Acute, transient viral myositis involving intercostal and abdominal muscles associated with Coxsackievirus B. Eponym: Ejner Sylvest (1930)

eponym LITFL 340

Will Pickles

Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo The great order of the ages is born afresh. Major Greenwood, 1939 Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms

William Cecil Dabney (1849-1894) 680

William Dabney

William Cecil Dabney (1849-1894) was an American physician and obstetrician. 'Devil's grip' (pleurodynia), the first to be published in North America.