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Henry Stanley Plummer
American internist and endocrinologist, born March 3, 1874, Hamilton, Minnesota; died 1937.
According to some writers, Plummer died in 1936. Can you help?
Associated eponyms:
Plummer treatment
Use of iodine to treat thyrotoxicosis.
Plummer's adenoma
Toxic adenoma of the thyroid gland.
Plummer's disease
Plummer's nail
Onycholysis as a sign of hyperthyroidism, especially when it affects the ring finger.
Plummer's sign
A sign of Graves/Basedow disease.
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
A syndrome characterized by an iron-deficiency anaemia, atrophic changes in the buccal, glossopharyngeal, and oesophageal mucous membranes, koilonycha (spoon-shaped finger nails), and dysphagia.
Biography:
Henry Stanley Plummer graduated M.D. from North-Western University in 1898. He practised with his father in Racine, Minnesota, for a period before he joined the Mayo Clinic in 1901. He later became head of the internal department of the Mayo Clinic and professor at the Medical School of Minnesota.
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