The eponym of the instrument
Scissors
Mayo Robson
Bristish Surgeon, Leeds
* 1853 † 1933
Mayo William James
* 1861, † 1939
Mayo Charles Horace
American Surgeons, Rochester Minnesota
* 1865, † 1939
Sir Joseph Lister
Surgeon of Bristish Royal Court
* 1827, † 1912
Erich Lexer
German Surgeon in Jena, Freiburg, Munich
* 1867, † 1938
Forceps
Francesco Durante
Founder of magazine “Il Policlinico”
* 1845
Haemostatic Forceps
William Stewart Halsted
American Surgeon,
he was the first surgeon to conceive the radical Mastectomy of breast cancer
* 1852, † 1923
Pean (Rochester)
French Suregon in field of Gynecology,
Inventor of Vessel Forceps
* 1830, † 1898
Kocher (Ochsner)
Swiss Surgeon,
He investigated the Thyroid Gland disease
Nobel Prize Winner 1909
* 1841, † 1917
Retractors
Bernhard Langenbeck
German Surgeon
One of the founders of the modern surgery and war-time surgery
* 1810, † 1887
Heinrich Fritsch
Gynäkologe
Special compression technique for bleeding in post partum
Born in Breslau, died in Bonn
* 1844, † 1915
Luis Albert Farabeuf
Professor of Anatomy Medical Faculty in Paris
* 1841, † 1910
Peritoneal Clamp Forceps
Johann Mikulicz Freiherr von Radecki
Polish Surgeon
* 1850, † 1905
Tissue and Organ Holding Forceps
William Wayne Babcock
American Surgeon, Philadelphia
* 1872, † 1963
Théodore Tuffier
French Professor of Medicine
Medical Faculty of the University Beaujou (F)
He was one of the first surgeons to concerned himself with lung, heart and vessel surgery.
* 1857, † 1929
Needle Holder
George Crile
American Professor of Surgery at
“Western Reserve University”
Founder of “Cleveland Clinic”
* 1864, † 1943