tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51630373617644508102024-03-14T15:31:04.506+05:30Personalities in Medicinemen & women behind the art & science of magick & medicineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-34618413293453322732011-02-21T18:45:00.000+05:302011-02-21T18:45:52.140+05:30John Benjamin Murphy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Murphy</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>John Benjamin Murphy</b> (1857 - 1916) American physician and pioneer surgeon, noted particularly for his contributions to abdominal surgery. William James Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo clinic called him "<i>the surgical genius of our generation</i>." Murphy's live clinical lectures in surgery attracted worldwide audience. He is also known for contributing many eponymous terms to medicine such as <b>Murphy's sign</b> (tenderness in the right hypochondrium on inspiration, felt when the hand is placed over the gallbladder area, indicative of acute cholecystits), <b>Murphy's punch</b> (tenderness on gentle tapping in the costovertebral angle over the renal area at the back in cases of perinephric abscess), <b>Murphy's button</b> (a mechanical device for intestinal anastomosis), and <b>Murphy's drip</b> (device used to administer fluids by <i>proctoclysis</i> in patients with peritonitis). He was one of the first surgeons to actively manage cases of appendicitis by surgery. He is also credited with the first to successfully suture the femoral artery and pioneered bone grafting techniques.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-89387394115540202772011-02-04T12:44:00.000+05:302011-02-04T12:44:44.365+05:30Bernhard Riedel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bernhard Riedel</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel</b> (1846 - 1916) German surgeon and pioneer in the surgical treatment of appendicitis and cholecystitis. He was the first surgeon to perform <b>choledochoduodenostomy</b>, which is the anastomosis of the common bile duct to the duodenum. His name is associated with <b>Riedel's thyroiditis</b> (ligneous thryroiditis, struma fibromatosis, or invasive fibrous thyroiditis) which is a rare chronic inflammation of the thyroid gland, resulting in replacement with fibrous tissue, causing difficulty in swallowing and breathing, but mostly with euthyroid status. <b>Riedel's lobe</b> is a tongue shaped hepatic process often found over the gallbladder in cases of chronic cholecytitis. <b>Riedel's tumor</b> is an infrequently used term for chronic pancreatitis. In his old age, he underwent amputation of one of his legs due to atherosclerotic complications, but that didn't stop him from being actively involved in medical activities.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-80773760618069277542011-02-04T09:44:00.000+05:302011-02-04T09:44:20.680+05:30William Allen Sturge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Allen Sturge</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>William Allen Sturge</b> (1850 - 1919) British physician and archeologist, who was one of the doctors who first described <b>Sturge-Weber syndrome</b> (also known as <i>encephalotrigeminal angimatosis</i>), a rare congenital nervous and skin disorder, associated with port-wine stains, glaucoma, seizures, mental retardation, and ipsilateral leptomeningeal angioma. His first wife, Emily Bowell, was one of the first women physicians of England. After her death, he married one his nurses. Sturge was a keen collector of archeological specimens, and the later part of his life after retiring from medicine was devoted to archeology. William Allen Sturge had no children.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-20306408376632192132011-02-03T15:23:00.000+05:302011-02-03T15:23:58.487+05:30Ferdinand-Jean Darier<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ferdinand Darier</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Ferdinand-Jean Darier</b> (1856 - 1938) French pathologist and dermatologist, considered "<i>the father of modern dermatology in France</i>". His name is associated with many dermatological diseases such as <b>follicular keratosis</b> (an autosomal dominant genetically inherited disease of the skin, also called <b>Darier's disease</b>) and <b>Darier's sign</b>, which is the appearance of itchy, red & swollen skin lesions after stroking of an area of skin, in subjects suffering from urticaria pigmentosa or systemic mastocytosis. In later age, Darier retired to a small village on the outskirts of Paris and was mayor of the place for ten years. He wrote classic textbooks on dermatology and was involved as the editor of the most famous encyclopedia on dermatology in the french language.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-20032281739740534852011-01-29T08:57:00.000+05:302011-01-29T08:57:27.058+05:30Nikolaus Friedreich<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikolaus Friedreich</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Nikolaus Friedreich</b> (1825 - 1882) French physician and pathologist, whose father and grandfather were also well known doctors in their time. Friedreich is particularly noted for his contributions to neurology, where he was the first to describe a progressive hereditary condition affecting the spinal cord and peripheral nerves, causing ataxia, now known as <b>Friedreich's ataxia</b>. His name is also associated with <b>Friedreich's foot</b>, or pes cavus (high arched foot) as is more commonly known. He also described <b>Friedreich's sign</b>, which is the sudden collapse of previously distended cervical veins during diastole, as a result of adherent pericardium. Along with the anatomist <b>Leopold Auerbach</b> (of the Auerbach's plexus fame) he described the <b>Friedreich-Auerbach disease</b>, a congenital hypertrohic disorder affecting the tongue, ears and facial features.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-8714984778650109462011-01-26T17:22:00.000+05:302011-01-26T17:22:34.588+05:30Dennis Parsons Burkitt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dennis Burkitt</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Dennis Parsons Burkitt</b> (1911 - 1993) Irish surgeon, most famous for his description of the eponymous <b>Burkitt's Lymphoma</b>, which he did when he was working as a surgeon in rural Africa. As a child, Burkitt lost his right eye in an accident, and was later denied employment as a surgeon for this reason. He was also a devout christian and had missionary leanings for his desire to work in Africa. Later in life, he settled in Britain, and made his second significant contribution to medicine by associating the lack of adequate fiber in the diet with many modern diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. His popular book on the subject, <i>Don't Forget Fiber in Your Diet</i> became an international bestseller.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-10858616045290819312011-01-26T10:06:00.000+05:302011-01-26T10:09:11.235+05:30Alois Alzheimer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alois Alzheimer</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Alois Alzheimer</b> (1864 - 1915) German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, credited with the first known description of <b>presenile dementia</b>, which his famous colleague <b>Emil Kraepelin</b>, would later name as <b>Alzheimer's disease</b>. <b>Franz Nissl</b>, another noted German and neuropathologist, was his close collaborator and friend in many of his research activities. Alzheimer also gave a detail description of the histopathological changes involved in general paralysis of the insane, before the causative organism of syphilis was discovered. Alzheimer's descriptions of histopathology in presenile dementia are unparalleled, and so thorough that even to this day his criteria for diagnosis of Alzheimer's stand valid. Alzhemier's prototype patient for the eponymous disease was a woman named <b>Auguste Deter</b>, who was admitted to the hospital where he worked, and died five years later at the age of 56. Autopsy studies on her brain were responsible for the first detailed description of the changes involved in the disease, particularly the presence of <b>senile plaques</b> and <b>neurofibrillary tangles</b>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-43482393353613703422010-12-26T08:46:00.000+05:302010-12-26T08:52:31.625+05:30Johann Lukas Schonlein<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Johann Lukas Schonlein</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Johann Lukas Schonlein</b> (1793 - 1864) German professor of medicine, one of the first to teach medicine in the local language than Latin. He was among the first to use bedside teaching as a method of learning clinical medicine. Schonlein is credited with giving the present name for two diseases, tuberculosis and hemophilia. Together with his student and pediatrician, <b>Eduard Heinrich Henoch</b>, he was the first to describe the eponymous <b>Henoch-Scholein purpura</b>, the most common vasculitis in children, characterized by the triad of non-thrombopenic purpura, arthritis and abdominal pain. He also discovered the parasitic cause of <b>favus</b>, a ringworm-like disease mainly affecting the scalp.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-40987863205651447792010-12-25T08:56:00.000+05:302010-12-25T08:56:55.875+05:30Heinrich Quincke<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heinrich Quincke</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke</b> (1842 - 1922) German physician and surgeon, most famous for his introduction of <b>lumbar puncture</b> (also called Quincke's puncture) for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He is also remembered for his study on a wide variety of diseases such as angioedema (<b>Quincke's edema</b>), <b>benign/idiopathic intracranial hypertention</b> (which he called serous meningitis), <b>Quincke's pulse</b> (with redness and pallor under the fingernails, one of the signs of aortic insufficiency), and <b>Quincke's position</b> (supine position with the head lower than the feet). Although Quincke was primarily an internist, he retained an active interest in lung surgery throughout his life. His older brother was the physicist, <b>Georg Hermann Quincke</b>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-25324212143313598982010-12-25T08:21:00.000+05:302010-12-25T08:21:42.112+05:30Edmund Rose<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edmund Rose</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Edmund Rose</b> (1836 - 1914) German surgeon, son of the mineralogist Gustav Rose, and the grandson of the pharmacologist Valentin Rose the Younger. He is remembered for his pathological studies of <b>cardiac tamponade</b>, a term which he coined. He also did research on <b>color blindness</b> and <b>xanthopsia</b>, and the adverse effects of the formerly used anthelminthic <i>Santonin</i>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-66184789760771580022010-12-19T19:18:00.000+05:302010-12-19T19:18:29.334+05:30Ambroise Pare<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ambroise Pare</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Ambroise Pare</b> (1510 - 1590) French surgeon, considered one of the <i>fathers of surgery</i>. He was an innovator in the field of <b>battlefield surgery</b> and the story of how he accidentally created what was perhaps the first clinical trial in the history of medical science is a famous example of his powers of observation and also his compassion towards his patients, for which he was well known. The oft used statement, <i>"I treated but God healed"</i> was first made by Pare. Pare is also known for the experiment where he discredited the then widely held superstitious belief in bezoars as an antidote for poisoning. He also contributed to the development of prosthetic substitutes, such as artificial limbs and eyes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-56493344157360097752010-12-19T15:30:00.000+05:302010-12-19T18:05:32.509+05:30Friedrich Neufeld<div style="text-align: right;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMC_EGTPExJ787oOExK8pex_NfgB6Hf-ij8Dv1JvsQ-qRq_zhZMrnFYmSj7HVC8loNNYu3cO12-sv54tkL1_bjHcMue87EaePkYRcsWJcM0cUub1XTq3utEK9GtuPNUe6GePHN0NAT5zC/s1600/neufeld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMC_EGTPExJ787oOExK8pex_NfgB6Hf-ij8Dv1JvsQ-qRq_zhZMrnFYmSj7HVC8loNNYu3cO12-sv54tkL1_bjHcMue87EaePkYRcsWJcM0cUub1XTq3utEK9GtuPNUe6GePHN0NAT5zC/s200/neufeld.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fred Neufeld</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Friedrich Neufeld</b> (1869 - 1945) German physician and bacteriologist, who discovered the various <b>pneumococcal types</b>. In 1900, Neufeld found out the bile solubility of pneumococci. Later using immunological techniques he classified the pneumococci into three types, based on the fact that the bacteria would swell in the presence of the specific anti-sera, which he called the <b>Quellung reaction</b> (from the German for swelling). Neufeld was also a gifted pianist, and he never married and lived with his mother throughout his life. Neufeld is supposed to have died in war torn Berlin in 1945 from <i>Entkraftung</i> (exhaustion).<span id="goog_529929111"></span><span id="goog_529929112"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-23472170407302349902010-12-19T14:40:00.000+05:302010-12-26T07:12:46.624+05:30Frederick Griffith<div style="text-align: right;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_jLDj8tfdqRz-Sia7i-Dpl2qpMuWLrVjVbDrPVJgaTgv80ssgZdlp1Fy_yYIDRJq_XZR1kqmiFbUc5Jc8gXvmKzZT2h9ECHPoROiUF93bfNfYs0G8dNvUDI21VSYnHdubQQBRaF490iu/s1600/griffith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_jLDj8tfdqRz-Sia7i-Dpl2qpMuWLrVjVbDrPVJgaTgv80ssgZdlp1Fy_yYIDRJq_XZR1kqmiFbUc5Jc8gXvmKzZT2h9ECHPoROiUF93bfNfYs0G8dNvUDI21VSYnHdubQQBRaF490iu/s200/griffith.jpg" width="132" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fred Griffith</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Frederick Griffith</b> (1879 - 1941) British public health scientist, who in 1927 conducted the now famous experiment, which demonstrated the phenomenon of <b>bacterial transformation</b>, then attributed to the presence of a <i>transforming principle</i>, and later proved by <b>Oswald Avery</b>, <b>Colin MacCleod</b> and <b>Maclyn Mccarty</b> as genetic DNA. In what is now known as the <b>Griffith experiment</b>, Frederick Griffith demonstrated conclusively that the non-pathogenic R strain of the <i>pneumococcus</i> can be induced to transform into the pathogenic S strain. It was said that Griffith and his colleague-friend <b>William Scott</b> could do more with a kerosene tin and primus stove than most men could with a palace, because of the fact that the laboratory conditions they worked in were primitive, and yet their research was outstanding. Griffith is supposed to have died along with his friend Scott in his apartment amid an air raid during WW II's London Blitz.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-84024425800793123242010-12-19T10:52:00.000+05:302010-12-19T10:52:47.194+05:30Hans Christian Gram<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRv9bvXPcO3vPzo7VGMYW33ThuYsC7oj_rfmLB6BZc9gUjhtz2zeoEGe3n8_ujnQRUQgOZEYDpIall-FwXlTwWhGds4UIQl-yz4ZkT9hDjRnAfzRu5xJLxXfkZfz8SyLjXwItS3DeAIaV/s1600/gram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRv9bvXPcO3vPzo7VGMYW33ThuYsC7oj_rfmLB6BZc9gUjhtz2zeoEGe3n8_ujnQRUQgOZEYDpIall-FwXlTwWhGds4UIQl-yz4ZkT9hDjRnAfzRu5xJLxXfkZfz8SyLjXwItS3DeAIaV/s200/gram.jpg" width="148" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hans Christian Gram</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Hans Christian Gram</b> (1853 - 1958) Danish bacteriologist, who developed the <b>Gram stain</b> method of differential staining that has become a widely used method for classifying pathogenic bacteria. Gram was also among the first to notice that macrocytes are a characteristic feature of pernicious anemia, which was in fact the subject matter of his doctoral thesis. Gram studied botany before studying medicine and he retained a life long interest in plants. He was a very modest man and remarked on his publication of the Gram staining procedure that it was an imperfect method which he hoped would be improved upon by fellow scientists.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-11268174946851186862010-12-19T08:51:00.000+05:302010-12-19T08:51:13.224+05:30Auguste Ambroise Tardieu<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgccjIW89t-NJAAzN77UAjSXa4rXhZF9mn2FXbvSNq_oyGLdSu1kQSSbH3KaAyBXpPJXEvsW1RO2pqBxh82Gu6tXYyLerQUp0CPp52rSD_JusS-nyUFawVTHRA4DqWLfkoC341GH62__CFU/s1600/tardieu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgccjIW89t-NJAAzN77UAjSXa4rXhZF9mn2FXbvSNq_oyGLdSu1kQSSbH3KaAyBXpPJXEvsW1RO2pqBxh82Gu6tXYyLerQUp0CPp52rSD_JusS-nyUFawVTHRA4DqWLfkoC341GH62__CFU/s200/tardieu.jpg" width="138" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Auguste Tardieu</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Auguste Ambroise Tardieu</b> (1818 -1879) The foremost French toxicologist and forensic medical expert of the mid-19th century. He was involved as expert evidence in some of the most notorious murder cases in the history of France. Tardieu was the first to write on <b>child sexual abuse</b>, which he classified as a type of physical assault. <b>Battered child syndrome</b>, now widely recognized, is also known as <b>Tardieu's syndrome</b> in his honor. <b>Tardieu's ecchymosis</b>, subpleural spots of ecchymosis that follow the death of a new born child by strangulation or suffocation, were first described by him in 1859. Besides being an expert in legal medicine, Tardieu also wrote about the terrible working conditions of children in mines and factories, which had a great positive impact in bring about much needed change.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-62491798603452000332010-12-19T08:26:00.000+05:302010-12-19T08:26:14.411+05:30Mathieu Orfila<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3QZxIA4o-rX5jlwK-z9Lf1LZjjVhJ9H0eph7Y17FqcbmkMhVJhHHqD-Sma7uk83tjkeri82GIS1TAzfwSSax0KJEvDkCzoq1bL6DAMfoRDosVZVjTgdm7729vsaimpHUoYNak6AD8oIy/s1600/orfila.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3QZxIA4o-rX5jlwK-z9Lf1LZjjVhJ9H0eph7Y17FqcbmkMhVJhHHqD-Sma7uk83tjkeri82GIS1TAzfwSSax0KJEvDkCzoq1bL6DAMfoRDosVZVjTgdm7729vsaimpHUoYNak6AD8oIy/s200/orfila.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mathieu Orfila</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila</b> (1787 - 1853) Spanish born French toxicologist, regarded as the <b>founder of forensic medicine</b>. Orfila was one of the first to publish books on toxicology and patterns of decomposition of dead bodies. He was consulted as the foremost toxicologist for evidence in many celebrated murder cases in 19th century France. Orfila was also a physician, but his primary interest was in forensic and legal medicine. One of his most celebrated cases was the sensational Marie LaFarge case in 1840, in which he conclusively proved that arsenic was used as a poison to perpetrate the murder.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-39998463925712343412010-12-16T08:14:00.000+05:302010-12-16T08:14:28.849+05:30Carl von Rokitansky<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC1f4nm6AuDhW4UFqlQ5olwrMwQxobVQsxUKn4FbxUeX9DqdPs5SDPi2LijrfZBHZxCUgMQNnc6XVprE7UZsl_yaeb04kmPgkrbZEGj3dVdJpqv9Hi99X8mhcn-6Cr27Idp_pHMqdeDS9_/s1600/rokitansky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC1f4nm6AuDhW4UFqlQ5olwrMwQxobVQsxUKn4FbxUeX9DqdPs5SDPi2LijrfZBHZxCUgMQNnc6XVprE7UZsl_yaeb04kmPgkrbZEGj3dVdJpqv9Hi99X8mhcn-6Cr27Idp_pHMqdeDS9_/s200/rokitansky.jpg" width="148" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carl von Rokitansky</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Baron Carl von Rokitansy</b> (1804 - 1878) Outstanding Bohemian pathologist, one of the most important figures in establishing pathology as a branch of medical science. Rokitansy is said to have personally conducted more than 30,000 autopsies in his lifetime. A large number of medical conditions are named after him - <b>Rokitansy-Cushing ulcer</b> (a gastric ulcer caused by elevated intracranial pressure), <b>von Rokitansky syndrome</b> (<b>Budd-Chiari syndrome</b>, occlusion of the hepatic veins, resulting in the calssical triad of abdominal pain, ascites and hepatomegaly), <b>Rokitansky nodule</b> (a teratoma), <b>Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses</b> (diverticula in the wall of the gall bladder, may be associated with cholecystitis) and <b>Rokitansky's triad</b> (pulmonary stenosis). The very rare <b>Superior mesenteric artery syndrome</b>, characterized by the compression of the third part of teh duodenum between the abdominal aorta and the superior mesenteric artery, was first described by Rokitansky. Rokitansky was also a philosopher (an ardent follower of Schopenhauer) and a liberal politician. The famous pathologist <b>Rudolf Virchow</b> is said to have referred to him as the "Linne of pathological anatomy."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-37541240379532028422010-12-16T07:08:00.000+05:302010-12-16T07:08:16.944+05:30Ingaz Semmelweis<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd6ktdjwlv7cVnNePpvPKnU9L01umaJluBxvJVe-4K8L-cJwEoq8OGX79Fo_3BwtJjl9q5kSzIiNHCGpCIT_QFujgssTfTed7xJgXBP8PmWGpBpHrWVCjBvX-4iyczJ7wnFugjoIWAFyrx/s1600/semmelweis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd6ktdjwlv7cVnNePpvPKnU9L01umaJluBxvJVe-4K8L-cJwEoq8OGX79Fo_3BwtJjl9q5kSzIiNHCGpCIT_QFujgssTfTed7xJgXBP8PmWGpBpHrWVCjBvX-4iyczJ7wnFugjoIWAFyrx/s200/semmelweis.jpg" width="128" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ingaz Semmelweis</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Ingaz Philipp Semmelweis</b> (1818 - 1865) Hungarian physician, described as the "savior of mothers" for his pioneering role in discovering that washing hands (with <i>chlorinated lime</i>) could drastically cut the incidence of <b>puerperal or childbed fever</b>. He is considered one of the most important people responsible for adoption of antiseptic measures in hospitals, though his theory and suggestions were mostly discarded by contemporaries of his time. Semmelweis died in a mental asylum, probably from septicemia from the infected wounds he had when he was severely beaten up by guards of the institution. <b>Semmelweis reflex</b>, which is a metaphor for the almost reflex like rejection of new ideas because it is against the popularly held belief, is named after him, as he himself suffered extensive rejection and ridicule for his beliefs about puerperal fever.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-58820332726915596952010-12-12T12:08:00.000+05:302010-12-13T19:55:47.781+05:30William Broadbent<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_hp2C65KfKSq43oMQXbKLa5gPaDQZXbY4dPqkwZ6WFdnyXzszpXciboG8UR-Q4vVEapr-8fduwU21xlAvSeRgZZwQ2-c1o8PBdBBlfShG3zkkE6h8GRJug8bjcRuDPk55nDi85R8kuyw/s1600/broadbent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_hp2C65KfKSq43oMQXbKLa5gPaDQZXbY4dPqkwZ6WFdnyXzszpXciboG8UR-Q4vVEapr-8fduwU21xlAvSeRgZZwQ2-c1o8PBdBBlfShG3zkkE6h8GRJug8bjcRuDPk55nDi85R8kuyw/s200/broadbent.jpg" width="131" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Broadbent</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Sir William Henry Broadbent</b> (1835 - 1907) English physician, well known for his contributions to cardiology and neurology. He was the first to describe a form of stroke, now known as <b>Broadbent apoplexy</b>, which is caused by cerebral hemorrhage into the ventricular system. Broadbent law which states the occurrence of unequal distribution of paralysis in ordinary forms of hemiplegia is named after him. <b>Broadbent sign</b> (recession of the left 11th & 12th intercostal spaces in adherent pericardium) and <b>Broadbent inverted sign</b> (pulsations on the posterior lateral chest wall in synchronization with ventricular systole, in cases of gross left atrial dilation) are both named after him. Two of his sons were also eminent physicians. William Broadbent was involved in a notorious criminal case in the 1890s when he was blackmailed by the serial-killer <b>Dr Thomas Neill Cream</b> (also called the <b>Lambeth poisoner</b>) in a letter that threatened to implicate Broadbent for murders. Towards the end of his life, he was made a baronet for his services rendered to the king.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-14954699953263721522010-12-12T11:45:00.000+05:302010-12-12T11:45:15.869+05:30William Smellie<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn649GP7aQ0eZPccrnGn5BbRrjzyXPMCHfc2d88-xk53TGcbQ5RJD7DNrVvYvCgDLw3uRWGXQdutgK8kcaZaHBsdOtQygiwIJ9zbdAeVBuK6K9FMu5j_EeNpMBbgyQ5Fwz2YLm8xrvmtu9/s1600/smellie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn649GP7aQ0eZPccrnGn5BbRrjzyXPMCHfc2d88-xk53TGcbQ5RJD7DNrVvYvCgDLw3uRWGXQdutgK8kcaZaHBsdOtQygiwIJ9zbdAeVBuK6K9FMu5j_EeNpMBbgyQ5Fwz2YLm8xrvmtu9/s200/smellie.jpg" width="152" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William SMellie</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>William Smellie</b> (1697 - 1763) Scottish obstetrician, regarded as the father of British midwifery. He wrote a number of famous textbooks on obstetrics which were widely read. In many of his writings, he was helped by his friend and fellow physician-writer, the author <b>Tobias Smollett</b>. Smellie had a successful practice, and he designed new varieties of obstetric forceps, devised a maneuver to deliver the head first in case of breech presentation, and described in detail the mechanism of labor. Smellie was also a painter and musician, pursuits which he enjoyed in leisure after his retirement to the village of Lanark. Smellie and famous contemporary obstetrician <b>William Hunter</b> have recently been accused of conspiring in murdering young pregnant women to obtain bodies for further study of anatomical changes during pregnancy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-21067104233933923142010-12-12T10:10:00.000+05:302010-12-12T10:10:51.946+05:30John Hughes Bennett<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KJjDUfBDnbvlBFBVX31lBynjSZuIYLeYPBr-Fuar3Gy3wAnzIZqnPKAl-DBdm8cUlGayznYhb-uzG0Vj5TTYoPhwWCckrceTtttMjZ6cGsO13pqBLwg5MIgQntil0F5jTr_MGNIGB6U_/s1600/bennett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KJjDUfBDnbvlBFBVX31lBynjSZuIYLeYPBr-Fuar3Gy3wAnzIZqnPKAl-DBdm8cUlGayznYhb-uzG0Vj5TTYoPhwWCckrceTtttMjZ6cGsO13pqBLwg5MIgQntil0F5jTr_MGNIGB6U_/s200/bennett.jpg" width="148" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Bennett</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>John Hughes Bennett</b> (1812 - 1875) English physician, physiologist and pathologist. He was the first to describe <b>leukemia</b> (then known as leukocythemia) as a blood disorder. He was also the first to describe pulmonary <b>aspergillosis</b> and also to advocate the use of cod liver oil as a therapeutic agent. He was one of the foremost medical educators of his day, and is considered the <b>father of physiological education</b> for his efforts to bring practical experimental lessons to the medical classroom. He was also one of the first to use the microscope for teaching. He was an opponent of blood letting practices, and advocated for the admission of women to medical schools.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-56128957990744216182010-12-12T09:52:00.000+05:302010-12-12T09:52:56.136+05:30Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friedrich Henle</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle</b> (1809 - 1885) German physician, pathologist and anatomist, one of the great early figures in the development of modern medical science. He was an early proponent of the germ theory of diseases and <b>Robert Koch</b> was one of his students. He is most famously remembered as the discoverer of the <b>loop of Henle</b> in the kidney. His mammoth <i>Handbook of Systematic Anatomy</i> is considered a classic reference text to this day. His name is associated with many anatomical structures such as the <b>Henle's layer</b> (outer layer of cells of root sheath of hair follicle), <b>Henle's ampulla</b> (ampulla of the uterine tube), <b>crypts of Henle</b> (microscopic pockets in the conjuctiva), <b>Henle's spine</b> (suprameatal spine of the mastoid), <b>Henle's fissure</b> (fibrous tissue between cardiac muscle fibers) and <b>Henle's ligament</b> (tendon of the transversus abdominis). Henle was a man of varied interests who was at home in both the sciences and the arts, and he was also an accomplished musician.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-64601127598657080712010-12-12T08:58:00.000+05:302010-12-12T08:58:09.710+05:30Arthur Hill Hassall<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arthur Hill Hassall</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Arthur Hill Hassall</b> (1817 - 1894) British physician, best known for his work on food adulteration and other aspects of public health and sanitation. He also studied botany, and his book on freshwater algae and microscopic observations on water bought into public prominence the need for water reform. He suffered from tuberculosis and throughout his life increasingly sought warmer climates as an aid to cure. He established the National Cottage Hospital sanatorium for treatment of consumptive diseases of the chest. <b>Hassall's corpuscles</b> (spherical eosinophilic bodies in the medulla of the thymus) and <b>Hassall-Henle bodies</b> (small excrescences in the periphery of the Descemet's membrane of the cornea) are both named after him. His work on food adulteration with the help of <b>Thomas Wakely</b> (founder of influential medical journal <i>The Lancet</i>) was instrumental in bringing about much needed reform in food safety.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-27055216113609549322010-12-12T08:31:00.000+05:302010-12-12T08:32:49.807+05:30Astley Paston Cooper<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sir Astley Cooper</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Sir Astley Paston Cooper</b> (1768 - 1841) English surgeon and anatomist, renowned for his contributions to anatomy and new surgical techniques and treatments. Many anatomical structures are named after him, such as <b>the suspensory ligaments of the breast </b>(Cooper's ligaments), superior pubic ligament (Cooper's pubic ligament), <b>Cooper's fascia</b> of the spermatic cord and Cooper's stripes (a fibrous structure in the ulnar ligament). Cooper was also renowned for his surgical skills and innovations. He made advances in surgery of the hernia, and of vessels, his most famous contribution being the use of ligation to treat aneurysms. Many diseases were also named after him, such as Cooper's testis (neuralgia of the testicles), <b>Cooper's neuralgia of the breast</b>, Cooper's retroperitoneal hernia, and <b>Cooper's disease</b> (benign cysts of the breast). For his removal of the infected sebaceous cyst from the head of King George IV, he was made a baronet. He had one of the most extensive surgical practices in the first half of the 19th century. His lectures were widely attended by students, and the poet <b>John Keats</b> was one of his students during his medical schooling.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163037361764450810.post-36626615952932371562010-12-12T08:00:00.000+05:302010-12-12T08:03:50.794+05:30Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edawrd Sharpey-Schafer</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer</b> (1850 - 1935) English physiologist, who coined the term "<b>insulin</b>" after theorizing that diabetes mellitus was caused by the deficiency in production of a single substance by the pancreas. He also coined the term "<b>endocrine</b>" for substances that are directly released into the bloodstream, after having discovered <b>adrenaline</b> with <b>George Oliver</b> (English physician and famed inventor of many medical instruments, such as the hemoglobinometer and arteriometer). The <b>Schafer method of artificial respiration</b> (the prone-pressure method) was named after him. He added Sharpey to his name as a tribute (and also to perpetuate) to his teacher, the Scottish anatomist <b>William Sharpey</b> (after whom <b>Sharpey's fibres</b>, which join the periosteum to the bone lamellae, are named).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0