This triad consists of low blood pressure, high CVP, and decreased heart sounds
What is Beck's triad?
American Cardiothoracic surgeon, 1935
It's the capsule that envelops the liver
What is Glisson's capsule
This one sticks out of the side, lateral to the rectus abdominus. It wasn't described until 1645, some 20 years after this German anatomist died.
What is a spegalian hernia?
Actually described by 3 people, this one guy gets the credit for this disease, characterized by "skip leisons"
Who was
Burnell Bernard Crohn? 1932 Mount Sinai!
He described it as "between 1.5 and 2 inches medial to a line drawn between the anterior iliac crest and the umbilicus"
What is McBurney's point? 1891

First described in 1968, this click-murmur syndrome is very common
What is Barlow's syndrome (prolapsing mitral valve)
Brareton Barlow 1962
Something like 2% of the world's population have this out-pocketing (described in 1809) which can cause trouble, including bleeding and inflammation
What is Meckel's diverticulum?
Described by someone else in the 16th century
This diaphragmatic hernia was named by an Italian anatomist; it's an anterior defect in the diaphragm
What is a Morgagni hernia?
This eccentric and brilliant British fellow was mostly not a physician but was the first to describe "shaking palsy" (paralysis agitans)
Who was James
Parkinson?
He noted several maneuvers that would decrease or obliterate the pulse in patients with thoracic outlet syndrome
Who was Adson?
This Russian actually described 5 different sounds but only 2 are used clinically for determining blood pressure
Who is Nikolai Korotkoff?
1874-1920
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Fournier didn't know the man whose fascia is forever tied to his sometimes fatal gangrene
What is Buck's Fascia? Gurdon Buck, Civil War plastic surgeon
Similar to the anteriorly locate Morgagni hernia, this one involves the posterior diaphragm and wasn't described until 1850 by a Bohemian surgeon
What is a Bochdalek hernia?
They didn't know Wilson but they did describe the eye finding associated with his disease. So did Wilson.
Who were Kayser and Fleisher?

This Jewish Orthopod came up with a simple sign to diagnose this diease, most often seen in middle aged women
Who was Harry Finklestein? (DeQuervain's tenosynovitis). Founder of Hosp. for Joint diseases!

He described this murmur in the 19th century when aortic insufficiency was a major problem. It's diastolic and sort of a functional mitral stenosis caused by aortic regurgitation
What is the Austin Flint murmur? He co-founded Buffalo Medical College and Bellevue
Austin Flint I
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You can often see them on ultrasound and we learned about these structures that form the renal pyramids in medical school but we couldn't live without these columns
What are the Columns of Bertin?
of Bertin?
This inguinal hernia includes the appendix.
What is an Amyand hernia? He did the first appendectomy! 1700's
It took 3 people to describe this most common inherited neuromuscular disease, once considered a type of muscular dystrophy.
What is Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease?

The pupils he described were dilated and barely constricted to light (but did to accommodation)
Who was Adie? (2 British neurologists described this in 1931, independently)

Though not named after him, this French cardiologist invented and popularized a device that has virtually come to symbolize our profession
Who is Rene Laennec? (Also first to use the term cirrhosis)

People who have this artery, named for a French anatomist/neurologist are at risk for a stroke involving both hemispheres
what is
the artery of Percheron? 1973
This rare one contains a Meckel's diverticulum!
What is Littre's hernia?
This German pathologist described these basophilic inclusions, seen in neutrophils of patients with severe stress, such as sepsis or major burns.
What are Dohle bodies? (with an umlaut)

He described it as "arteritis obliterans" in 1908; it took years for others to name it after him.
What is Buerger's Disease? Leo Buerger (Mt. Sinai!)
Disease?