Eponymous medical treatments are generally named after the physician or surgeon who described the treatment.
Treatment | Name | Specialty | Description | Reference/External link | |
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Brandt–Daroff manoeuvre | Thomas Brandt, Robert B. Daroff | ||||
Carrel–Dakin treatment | Irrigation of wounds with the antiseptic Dakin's solution (no longer used) | ||||
John Epley | Epley JM . The canalith repositioning procedure: for treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo . Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg . 107 . 3 . 399–404 . September 1992 . 1408225 . 10.1177/019459989210700310. | ||||
Kocher's method | Method used to reduce dislocated shoulders | ||||
Mitchell's rest cure | Treatment involving bed rest for anxiety disorders | ||||
Ochsner–Sherren treatment | Conservative (i.e. non-operative) management of appendicitis (no longer used) | ||||
Daily inoculations of suspensions of partially inactivated rabies, used to treat or prevent rabies (no longer used) | |||||
Plummer treatment | |||||
Semont manoeuvre | A Semont | Semont A, Freyss G, Vitte E . Curing the BPPV with a liberatory maneuver . Adv. Otorhinolaryngol. . 42 . 290–3 . 1988 . 3213745 . | |||
Sippy diet | Bertram Sippy | Diet of milk and antacid powders to treat gastric ulcer (no longer used) | |||
Stroganoff' method | Treatment of eclampsia with morphine, chloral hydrate, quiet and rapid delivery (obsolete term) | ||||
Tallerman–Sheffield treatment | Lewis A. Tallerman and Evelyn Sheffield | Rheumatism, pain | Treatment of pain through baking patients alive | ||
Wagner–Jauregg treatment | Julius Wagner Jauregg | Infectious diseases | |||
Williams Flexion Exercises | Paul C. Williams | Treatment of low back pain by enhancing lumbar flexion | Williams P.C. (1937), “Lesions of the Lumbosacral Spine: 2. Chronic Traumatic (postural) Destruction of the Lumbosacral Intervertebral Disc”, J Bone Joint Surgery; 29:690–703 | ||
Yeo's treatment | Treatment of obesity using hot drinks and carbohydrate avoidance | ||||
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