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WHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.LÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse.BAKER'S CYST
W. M. Baker: The formation of abnormal synovial cysts in connection with the joints. II. St.Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, London,1885, 21: 177-190.
BRADLEY'S SYNDROME
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. An epidemic disease affecting both sexes and with onset at all ages, usually occurring during the winter months and early spring, andbeginning in
GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Ina Mae Gaskin Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects ofEDWARD BACH
Edward Bach grew up in Bermingham, and as a boy is said to have shown a keen concern for human suffering. He worked in his father's brass foundry and observed the loneliness, alienation and apathy that appeared to affect the general health of many of his co-workers.FRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, andHERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner's father belonged to the leadership of a trade company in Zurich.Due to his illness the family Richner in 1910 moved to Davos where the father died two years later. Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. ROBERT DOUGLAS SWEET We thank K. R. Hunter for submitting this biography of Douglas Sweet, written by H. M. Leather: Douglas Sweet was a consultant dermatologist at the Plymouth and Torbay group of hospitals. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, but went to school in New Zealand, at Wanganui.WHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.LÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse.BAKER'S CYST
W. M. Baker: The formation of abnormal synovial cysts in connection with the joints. II. St.Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, London,1885, 21: 177-190.
BRADLEY'S SYNDROME
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. An epidemic disease affecting both sexes and with onset at all ages, usually occurring during the winter months and early spring, andbeginning in
GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Ina Mae Gaskin Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects ofEDWARD BACH
Edward Bach grew up in Bermingham, and as a boy is said to have shown a keen concern for human suffering. He worked in his father's brass foundry and observed the loneliness, alienation and apathy that appeared to affect the general health of many of his co-workers.FRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, andHERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner's father belonged to the leadership of a trade company in Zurich.Due to his illness the family Richner in 1910 moved to Davos where the father died two years later. Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. ROBERT DOUGLAS SWEET We thank K. R. Hunter for submitting this biography of Douglas Sweet, written by H. M. Leather: Douglas Sweet was a consultant dermatologist at the Plymouth and Torbay group of hospitals. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, but went to school in New Zealand, at Wanganui. PEOPLE LISTED BY COUNTRY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.WIDUKIND LENZ
Widukind D. Lenz became known for his early recognition of Thalidomide (German name: Contergan) as the cause of a world-wide epidemic of limb malformation.. From 1937 to 1943 Lenz studied medicine in Tübingen Berlin, Prague and Greifswald. From 1944 to 1948 he served as a physician in various Luftwaffe hospitals and in a prisoner of war campin England.
FRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, and BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.GEORGE COATS
George Coats began his medical studies at Glasgow University in 1892, graduated in 1897 and received his doctorate there in 1901. He was a resident at the Royal Western and Eye Infirmaries in Glasgow, and continued his studies in ophthalmology in Vienna, visiting Munich, Freiburg and Zurich.NABOTHIAN CYSTS
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Retention cysts, 1-1,7 mm, in diameter, formed by the nabothian glands at the neck of the uterus, due to occlusion of the lumina of glands in the mucosa of the uterine cervix, causing them to be distended withretained secretion.
HAROLD GLENDON SCHEIE Harold Glendon Scheie was born into a homesteading family in South Dakota, the son of Lars T. Scheie and Ella Mae Ware Scheie, and spent his early years living in a sod house on the Berthold Indian reservation. He was educated in the Warren, Minnesota, public school system, and in 1926 he graduated from Warren High School. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a B.S., 1931 THOMAS CASPAR GILCHRIST Thomas Caspar Gilchrist studied medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He left England for America in 1890 and from 1897 he was clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland, from 1898 in the same position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.MAURICE GOLDENHAR
Maurice Goldenhar emigrated from Belgium to the United States of America in 1940. After the war he returned to Europe for medical studies, and then returned to the United States. He was a general practitioner who practiced in the U.S. all of his life.FERMI'S VACCINE
C. Fermi: Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit. Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, 1908, 58: 233-276. Eine sehr kurze vorläufige Mitteilung wurde im Jahre 1905 in der Riforma medica, Jahrgang XXI, Nr. 36, veröffentlicht.WHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.LÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.BAKER'S CYST
William Morrant Baker. Hernia-like cysts in synovial membranes, especially of the knee joints, produced by synovial fluid escaping from a joint through a natural channel or thorugh a hernial opening in the synovial membrane. Limited extension with mild aching and stiffness of knee. Occur at any age, but more frequent in males 15 to30 years of age.
HERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. He started his medical studies in Geneva and continued them in Zurich, excepted one semester in Kiel. He graduated 1934 and received his doctor's degree two years later. We thank PatrickBRADLEY'S SYNDROME
An epidemic disease affecting both sexes and with onset at all ages, usually occurring during the winter months and early spring, and beginning in early morning. It is characterized by nausea, sudden and profuse vomiting, anorexia, constipation, pain diarrhoea and, less frequently, constipation, pale stools, headache, generalized aching,and
FRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, andEDWARD BACH
Edward Bach grew up in Bermingham, and as a boy is said to have shown a keen concern for human suffering. He worked in his father's brass foundry and observed the loneliness, alienation and apathy that appeared to affect the general health of many of his co-workers. ROBERT DOUGLAS SWEET Douglas Sweet was a consultant dermatologist at the Plymouth and Torbay group of hospitals. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, but went to school in New Zealand, at Wanganui. He returned to the UK to study at Cambridge and at St Thomas's hospital. He qualified in 1942 and served in the RAMC from 1944 to 1946.WHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.LÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.BAKER'S CYST
William Morrant Baker. Hernia-like cysts in synovial membranes, especially of the knee joints, produced by synovial fluid escaping from a joint through a natural channel or thorugh a hernial opening in the synovial membrane. Limited extension with mild aching and stiffness of knee. Occur at any age, but more frequent in males 15 to30 years of age.
EPONYMS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. PEOPLE LISTED BY COUNTRY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.EDWARD BACH
Edward Bach grew up in Bermingham, and as a boy is said to have shown a keen concern for human suffering. He worked in his father's brass foundry and observed the loneliness, alienation and apathy that appeared to affect the general health of many of his co-workers.FRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, andWIDUKIND LENZ
Widukind D. Lenz became known for his early recognition of Thalidomide (German name: Contergan) as the cause of a world-wide epidemic of limb malformation.. From 1937 to 1943 Lenz studied medicine in Tübingen Berlin, Prague and Greifswald. From 1944 to 1948 he served as a physician in various Luftwaffe hospitals and in a prisoner of war campin England.
BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.FERMI'S VACCINE
Bibliography. C. Fermi: Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit. Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, 1908, 58: 233-276. Eine sehr kurze vorläufige Mitteilung wurde im Jahre 1905 in der Riforma medica, Jahrgang XXI, Nr.GEORGE COATS
George Coats began his medical studies at Glasgow University in 1892, graduated in 1897 and received his doctorate there in 1901. He was a resident at the Royal Western and Eye Infirmaries in Glasgow, and continued his studies in ophthalmology in Vienna, visiting Munich, Freiburg and Zurich. THOMAS CASPAR GILCHRIST Thomas Caspar Gilchrist studied medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He left England for America in 1890 and from 1897 he was clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland, from 1898 in the same position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. In 1907 the University of Maryland conferred on him an honorary M.D.MAURICE GOLDENHAR
Maurice Goldenhar emigrated from Belgium to the United States of America in 1940. After the war he returned to Europe for medical studies, and then returned to the United States. He was a general practitioner who practiced in the U.S. all of his life. The "Maurice Goldenhar Family Medicine Update", Stony Brook University Hospital,State
WHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Bibliography. Ina Mae Gaskin. Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects of childbirth preparation and parenting. List people by country. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.HERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. He started his medical studies in Geneva and continued them in Zurich, excepted one semester in Kiel. He graduated 1934 and received his doctor's degree two years later. We thank PatrickFRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, and MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theLÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse.OBER'S TEST
A clinical test for contraction of the fascia lata in sciatica or low back pain. Pierre Sterckx submitted this description: The patient lies on the uninvolved side with the lower knee flexed to help reduce lumbar lordosis. The examiner lifts the upper flexed or extended leg at the ankle while stabilizing the pelvis with the other hand, then abducts and extends the hip allowing the iliotibialWHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Bibliography. Ina Mae Gaskin. Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects of childbirth preparation and parenting. List people by country. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.HERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. He started his medical studies in Geneva and continued them in Zurich, excepted one semester in Kiel. He graduated 1934 and received his doctor's degree two years later. We thank PatrickFRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, and MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theLÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse.OBER'S TEST
A clinical test for contraction of the fascia lata in sciatica or low back pain. Pierre Sterckx submitted this description: The patient lies on the uninvolved side with the lower knee flexed to help reduce lumbar lordosis. The examiner lifts the upper flexed or extended leg at the ankle while stabilizing the pelvis with the other hand, then abducts and extends the hip allowing the iliotibial FIND PEOPLE BY COUNTRY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. EPONYMS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.WIDUKIND LENZ
Widukind D. Lenz became known for his early recognition of Thalidomide (German name: Contergan) as the cause of a world-wide epidemic of limb malformation.. From 1937 to 1943 Lenz studied medicine in Tübingen Berlin, Prague and Greifswald. From 1944 to 1948 he served as a physician in various Luftwaffe hospitals and in a prisoner of war campin England.
FERMI'S VACCINE
C. Fermi: Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit. Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, 1908, 58: 233-276. Eine sehr kurze vorläufige Mitteilung wurde im Jahre 1905 in der Riforma medica, Jahrgang XXI, Nr. 36, veröffentlicht. MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theBRADLEY'S SYNDROME
An epidemic disease affecting both sexes and with onset at all ages, usually occurring during the winter months and early spring, and beginning in early morning. It is characterized by nausea, sudden and profuse vomiting, anorexia, constipation, pain diarrhoea and, less frequently, constipation, pale stools, headache, generalized aching,and
ALBERT SÉZARY
Albert Sézary was born in Algiers and studied in Paris. After an outstanding scholastic career he became an interne des hôpitaux d’Alger in 1901. In 1903 he moved to Paris where he became an externe in 1904 and an intern in 1905. He worked with Joseph Jules Dejerine 1849-1917) and Fulgence Raymond (1844-1910) and gained astrong basis in
NABOTHIAN CYSTS
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Retention cysts, 1-1,7 mm, in diameter, formed by the nabothian glands at the neck of the uterus, due to occlusion of the lumina of glands in the mucosa of the uterine cervix, causing them to be distended withretained secretion.
ARNOLD PICK
Arnold Pick was born of German-Jewish parents in a village called Velké Meziricí (Gros-Meseritsch) in Moravia. He studied medicine at Vienna and as a student was assistant to the neurologist Theodor Hermann Meynert (1833-1892). He obtained his doctorate in 1875 and subsequently was assistant to Alexander Karl Otto Westphal (1863-1941) in Berlin, at the same time as Karl Wernicke (1848-1905 THOMAS CASPAR GILCHRIST Thomas Caspar Gilchrist studied medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He left England for America in 1890 and from 1897 he was clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland, from 1898 in the same position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. In 1907 the University of Maryland conferred on him an honorary M.D.WHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Bibliography. Ina Mae Gaskin. Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects of childbirth preparation and parenting. List people by country. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.HERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. He started his medical studies in Geneva and continued them in Zurich, excepted one semester in Kiel. He graduated 1934 and received his doctor's degree two years later. We thank PatrickFRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, andWHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Bibliography. Ina Mae Gaskin. Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects of childbirth preparation and parenting. List people by country. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.HERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. He started his medical studies in Geneva and continued them in Zurich, excepted one semester in Kiel. He graduated 1934 and received his doctor's degree two years later. We thank PatrickFRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, and MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theLÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse.OBER'S TEST
A clinical test for contraction of the fascia lata in sciatica or low back pain. Pierre Sterckx submitted this description: The patient lies on the uninvolved side with the lower knee flexed to help reduce lumbar lordosis. The examiner lifts the upper flexed or extended leg at the ankle while stabilizing the pelvis with the other hand, then abducts and extends the hip allowing the iliotibial FIND PEOPLE BY COUNTRY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. EPONYMS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.WIDUKIND LENZ
Widukind D. Lenz became known for his early recognition of Thalidomide (German name: Contergan) as the cause of a world-wide epidemic of limb malformation.. From 1937 to 1943 Lenz studied medicine in Tübingen Berlin, Prague and Greifswald. From 1944 to 1948 he served as a physician in various Luftwaffe hospitals and in a prisoner of war campin England.
FERMI'S VACCINE
C. Fermi: Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit. Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, 1908, 58: 233-276. Eine sehr kurze vorläufige Mitteilung wurde im Jahre 1905 in der Riforma medica, Jahrgang XXI, Nr. 36, veröffentlicht. MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theBRADLEY'S SYNDROME
An epidemic disease affecting both sexes and with onset at all ages, usually occurring during the winter months and early spring, and beginning in early morning. It is characterized by nausea, sudden and profuse vomiting, anorexia, constipation, pain diarrhoea and, less frequently, constipation, pale stools, headache, generalized aching,and
ALBERT SÉZARY
Albert Sézary was born in Algiers and studied in Paris. After an outstanding scholastic career he became an interne des hôpitaux d’Alger in 1901. In 1903 he moved to Paris where he became an externe in 1904 and an intern in 1905. He worked with Joseph Jules Dejerine 1849-1917) and Fulgence Raymond (1844-1910) and gained astrong basis in
NABOTHIAN CYSTS
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Retention cysts, 1-1,7 mm, in diameter, formed by the nabothian glands at the neck of the uterus, due to occlusion of the lumina of glands in the mucosa of the uterine cervix, causing them to be distended withretained secretion.
ARNOLD PICK
Arnold Pick was born of German-Jewish parents in a village called Velké Meziricí (Gros-Meseritsch) in Moravia. He studied medicine at Vienna and as a student was assistant to the neurologist Theodor Hermann Meynert (1833-1892). He obtained his doctorate in 1875 and subsequently was assistant to Alexander Karl Otto Westphal (1863-1941) in Berlin, at the same time as Karl Wernicke (1848-1905 THOMAS CASPAR GILCHRIST Thomas Caspar Gilchrist studied medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He left England for America in 1890 and from 1897 he was clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland, from 1898 in the same position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. In 1907 the University of Maryland conferred on him an honorary M.D.WHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Bibliography. Ina Mae Gaskin. Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects of childbirth preparation and parenting. List people by country. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.HERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. He started his medical studies in Geneva and continued them in Zurich, excepted one semester in Kiel. He graduated 1934 and received his doctor's degree two years later. We thank PatrickFRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, and MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theLÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse.OBER'S TEST
A clinical test for contraction of the fascia lata in sciatica or low back pain. Pierre Sterckx submitted this description: The patient lies on the uninvolved side with the lower knee flexed to help reduce lumbar lordosis. The examiner lifts the upper flexed or extended leg at the ankle while stabilizing the pelvis with the other hand, then abducts and extends the hip allowing the iliotibialWHONAMEDIT?
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Disclaimer: Whonamedit? does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is PEOPLE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. BÉNÉDICT AUGUSTIN MOREL In 1860 Bénédict Augustin Morel introduced the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) Morel was born in Vienna to French parents.GASKIN'S MANOEUVRE
Bibliography. Ina Mae Gaskin. Spiritual Midwifery. 3rd edition, 1990. Accounts of births at The Farm, a self-sufficient farming community in Tennessee. Advice on both spiritual and physical aspects of childbirth preparation and parenting. List people by country. HELENE OLLENDORFF CURTH Helene Ollendorff studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, After qualifying in 1923 she trained in dermatology at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus in Berlin under Abraham Buschke. She became Buschke's assistant subsequently married his other assistant, Wilhelm Curth. The Curths moved to the USA in 1931 and commenced private practice in New York.HERMANN RICHNER
Hermann Richner went to school at Davos until 1927 and then a year at Chur. He started his medical studies in Geneva and continued them in Zurich, excepted one semester in Kiel. He graduated 1934 and received his doctor's degree two years later. We thank PatrickFRANÇOIS MAURICEAU
François Mauriceau received his first training in obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city of Paris. After qualifying he soon built a large practice in which he gathered experiences that were later laid down in his works. He was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observations and detailed studies of the foetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, and MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theLÉON BOUVERET
Léon Bouveret grew up in St-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a small town 70 km north of Lyon. His father was a physician who trained Leon from early childhood. A gifted child, Léon distinguished himself in high school, where he even won an academic competition in Latin verse.OBER'S TEST
A clinical test for contraction of the fascia lata in sciatica or low back pain. Pierre Sterckx submitted this description: The patient lies on the uninvolved side with the lower knee flexed to help reduce lumbar lordosis. The examiner lifts the upper flexed or extended leg at the ankle while stabilizing the pelvis with the other hand, then abducts and extends the hip allowing the iliotibial FIND PEOPLE BY COUNTRY What is an eponym? An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. EPONYMS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.WIDUKIND LENZ
Widukind D. Lenz became known for his early recognition of Thalidomide (German name: Contergan) as the cause of a world-wide epidemic of limb malformation.. From 1937 to 1943 Lenz studied medicine in Tübingen Berlin, Prague and Greifswald. From 1944 to 1948 he served as a physician in various Luftwaffe hospitals and in a prisoner of war campin England.
FERMI'S VACCINE
C. Fermi: Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit. Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten, 1908, 58: 233-276. Eine sehr kurze vorläufige Mitteilung wurde im Jahre 1905 in der Riforma medica, Jahrgang XXI, Nr. 36, veröffentlicht. MARIE-FOIX MANOEUVRE AND REFLEX Marie-Foix manoeuvre is a manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities by a passive and slow flexion of toes and feet. It has also been called Bekhterev-Marie-Foix maneuve and Marie-Foix manoeuvre. Marie-Foix reflex is a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis: Passiv plantar flexion of the the toes or forcing the foot downward causes dorsiflexion of theBRADLEY'S SYNDROME
An epidemic disease affecting both sexes and with onset at all ages, usually occurring during the winter months and early spring, and beginning in early morning. It is characterized by nausea, sudden and profuse vomiting, anorexia, constipation, pain diarrhoea and, less frequently, constipation, pale stools, headache, generalized aching,and
ALBERT SÉZARY
Albert Sézary was born in Algiers and studied in Paris. After an outstanding scholastic career he became an interne des hôpitaux d’Alger in 1901. In 1903 he moved to Paris where he became an externe in 1904 and an intern in 1905. He worked with Joseph Jules Dejerine 1849-1917) and Fulgence Raymond (1844-1910) and gained astrong basis in
NABOTHIAN CYSTS
Whonamedit? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Retention cysts, 1-1,7 mm, in diameter, formed by the nabothian glands at the neck of the uterus, due to occlusion of the lumina of glands in the mucosa of the uterine cervix, causing them to be distended withretained secretion.
ARNOLD PICK
Arnold Pick was born of German-Jewish parents in a village called Velké Meziricí (Gros-Meseritsch) in Moravia. He studied medicine at Vienna and as a student was assistant to the neurologist Theodor Hermann Meynert (1833-1892). He obtained his doctorate in 1875 and subsequently was assistant to Alexander Karl Otto Westphal (1863-1941) in Berlin, at the same time as Karl Wernicke (1848-1905 THOMAS CASPAR GILCHRIST Thomas Caspar Gilchrist studied medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He left England for America in 1890 and from 1897 he was clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland, from 1898 in the same position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. In 1907 the University of Maryland conferred on him an honorary M.D.Whonamedit?
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