| Cheney, William | <person> U.S. Radiologist, *1918. See: Cheney syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Rivers, William | <person> English physician, 1864-1922. See: Rivers' cocktail. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, William | <person> Scottish physician, 1852-1940. See: Russell bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, William James | <person> English chemist, 1830-1909. See: Russell effect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Welch, William | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1850-1934. See: Welch's bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilder, William | <person> U.S. Ophthalmologst, 1860-1935. See: Wilder's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilde, Sir William | <person> Irish oculist and otologist, 1815-1876. See: Wilde's cords, Wilde's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| William of Soliceto | <person> One of the outstanding medical teachers who was also referred to as Guglielmo Salicetti, and taught at Bologna. He was well educated in the hospital and on the battlefield. He also was the city physician of Verona. He wrote a great text in 1275, "Cyrurgia," for the benefit of his son whom he brought up in the profession. He restored the use of the knife which the Arabians had discontinued in favor of the cautery. He taught how to suture severed nerves. He emphasised the sign of crepitus (grating when bone is moved) as a diagnosis of fractures. He also was original in assigning sexual intercourse as the real cause of chancre, bubo and phagedenic ulcers. He sutured fresh wounds instead of letting them heal by second intention. Lived: 1210-1277. (21 Mar 1998) |
| Wilson, Sir William | <person> English dermatologist, 1809-1884. See: Wilson's disease, Wilson's lichen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wollaston, William | <person> English physician and physicist, 1766-1828. See: Wollaston's doublet, Wollaston's theory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Munro, William | <person> 19th century Australian dermatologist. See: Munro's abscess, Munro's microabscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Coolidge, William | <person> U.S. Physicist, 1873-1974. See: Coolidge tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Councilman, William | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1854-1933. See: Councilman body, Councilman's lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cowper, William | <person> B. Petersfield, Hampshire (Arlesford, according to Cole), in 1666. D. Bishop's Sutton, Mar. 8th, 1709. Was a London Surgeon who published his anatomical works in sumptuous fashion and was one of the first anatomists to dissect a marsupial. Elected F.R.S., 1698. Was much in-debted to the work of Bidloo which he failed to acknowledge. Cowper's Glands - glandulae bulbo-urethrales. These glands had been described previously (1684) by Mery. Lived: 1666-1709. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Porter, William | <person> Irish surgeon, 1790-1861. See: Porter's fascia. (05 Mar 2000) |