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What Sir William Battle Found: Observations Beyond his Sign

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Eponyms remind us of a singular finding and, incidentally, honor the physicians who figured it out for us, typically without benefit of the diagnostic tools available today. As they say, an eponym is here to stay when it no longer presumes first-hand knowledge of the scientist’s work. However, “eponymization” may reduce the entire body of an academic practitioner’s work to a single observation. One such example may be the Battle sign. Few know he was a surgeon or that the eponym has nothing to do with battle trauma. …
Title
What Sir William Battle Found: Observations Beyond his Sign
Author
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Publication date
14-02-2022
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Neurocritical Care / Issue 3/2024
Print ISSN: 1541-6933
Electronic ISSN: 1556-0961
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-021-01435-6
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