Eponymous medical treatments are generally named after the physician or surgeon who described the treatment.

Treatment Name Specialty Description Reference/External link Brandt–Daroff manoeuvre Thomas Brandt, Robert B. Daroff Otolaryngology Exercises used to treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Carrel–Dakin treatment Alexis Carrel, Henry Drysdale Dakin General surgery Irrigation of wounds with the antiseptic Dakin's solution (no longer used) Epley's manoeuvre John Epley Otolaryngology Manoeuvre used to treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Heimlich manoeuvre Henry Heimlich Emergency medicine Abdominal thrust used to clear airway obstruction by foreign body Kocher's method Emil Theodor Kocher Orthopaedics Method used to reduce dislocated shoulders Mitchell's rest cure Silas Weir Mitchell Psychiatry Treatment involving bed rest for anxiety disorders Ochsner–Sherren treatment Albert John Ochsner, James Sherren General surgery Conservative (i.e. non-operative) management of appendicitis (no longer used) Pasteur's treatment Louis Pasteur Virology Daily inoculations of suspensions of partially inactivated rabies, used to treat or prevent rabies (no longer used) Plummer treatment Henry Stanley Plummer Endocrinology Use of iodine for the treatment of hyperthyroidism Semont manoeuvre A Semont Otolaryngology Manoeuvre used to treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Sippy diet Bertram Sippy Gastroenterology Diet of milk and antacid powders to treat gastric ulcer (no longer used) Stroganoff' method Vasilii Vasilovich Stroganoff Obstetrics Treatment of eclampsia with morphine, chloral hydrate, quiet and rapid delivery (obsolete term) Tallerman–Sheffield treatmentLewis A. Tallerman and Evelyn SheffieldRheumatism, painTreatment of pain through baking patients alive Wagner–Jauregg treatment Julius Wagner Jauregg Infectious diseases Treatment of general paresis of the insane by infecting the patient with malaria Williams Flexion Exercises Paul C. Williams Orthopedics 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 Isaac Burney Yeo Bariatrics Treatment of obesity using hot drinks and carbohydrate avoidance Yuzpe regimen A. Albert Yuzpe Gynecology Two sequential high female hormone doses as emergency contraception

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