| Greenhow, Edward | <person> British physician, 1814-1888. See: Greenhow's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Clapton, Edward | <person> English physician, 1830-1909. See: Clapton's line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Waters, Edward | <person> U.S. Obstetrician and gynecologist, *1898. See: Waters' operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Collins, Edward Treacher | <person> English ophthalmologist, 1862-1919. See: Treacher Collins' syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Harrison, Edward | <person> English physician, 1766-1838. See: Harrison's groove. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prince edward island | An island in the gulf of st. Lawrence constituting a province of canada in the eastern part of the country. It is very irregular in shape with many deep inlets. Its capital is charlottetown. Discovered by the french in 1534 and originally named ile saint-jean, it was renamed in 1799 in honor of prince edward, fourth son of george III and future father of queen victoria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Shenton, Edward | <person> English radiologist, 1872-1955. See: Shenton's line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Spitzka, Edward | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1852-1914. See: Spitzka's nucleus, Spitzka's marginal tract, Spitzka's marginal zone, column of Spitzka-Lissauer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stafne, Edward | <person> U.S. Oral pathologist, *1894. See: Stafne bone cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Strong, Edward K Jr | <person> U.S. Psychologist, *1884. See: Strong vocational interest test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Davidson, Edward | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1894-1933. See: Davidson syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Doisy, Edward | <person> U.S. Biochemist and Nobel laureate, 1893-1986. See: Allen-Doisy test, Allen-Doisy unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Edward Jenner | <person> Jenner was the typical country practitioner, who wanted to better himself by furthering his education. He enrolled as an anatomy house pupil of John Hunter. Although his city colleagues stamped him as a lazy and rather dull person, he actually was a highly intelligent country physician. He became cognisant that milk maids, who developed pustules on their hands from milking cows did not get smallpox. So he used Sarah Nelmes, a dairy maid with cowpox pustules, as his donor to inoculate (vaccinate) 8-year-old James Phipps on May 14, l796. (Why did not this maid receive her due recognition ?) He waited until July 1, 1796 (1-1/2 months) at which time he challenged the youngster with the smallpox virus. The boy was totally protected without any symptoms whatsoever. Jenner continued to inoculate the people in his vicinity including his own children. The recipients were then challenged with smallpox and complete protection was noted. Edward Jenner published his results of 123 cases in 1796, and his discovery was rapidly accepted and popularised. By 1800, more than 6,000 people had been vaccinated. Catherine the Great, the beautiful Czarina of Russia, received her inoculation, for which she paid 12,000 pounds. Variola is the medical term for smallpox, whereas Varicella is chicken pox. Lived: 1749-1823. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Edward's syndrome | <paediatrics, syndrome> A congenital disorder caused by a baby having an extra copy of chromosome 18 (three instead of the normal two). Characteristics of the disorder include a large number of different malformed organs and malformed physical features of the face and skeletal structure. In most cases, the child dies before it is born, 90% of babies born live die within a year of birth. Symptoms may be less severe when the trisomy occurs after fertilization during mitosis in the zygote (10% of cases), than when the trisomy occurs during the meiosis which produced the egg or sperm (90% of cases). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Ehlers, Edward | <person> A Danish dermatologist, 1863-1937. See: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |