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Cary Eggleston
American physician, born August 18, 1884, Brooklyn, New York; died 1966.
Associated eponyms:
Bradbury-Eggleston syndrome
A degenerative disorder of the autonomic nervous system presenting in middle to late life, affecting men more than women, characterized by abnormal low blood pressure in standing position.
Bradbury-Eggleston triad
A triad of Orthostatic hypotension, impotence, and anhidrosis.
Eggleston's method
Rapid digitalisation by means of large doses of digitalis leaf or tincture frequently repeated.
Biography:
Cary Eggleston attended the University of Jena and subsequently studied at the Cornell University Medical School, Ithaca, where he became doctor of medicine in 1907. After working in various New York hospitals, he was an instructor at the Cornell University Medical Scholl from 1911 to 1918, 1918 to 1923 an assistant professor of pharmacology, and in 1923 he was appointed assistant professor of clinical medicine. He was assistant attending physician to the City Hospital, New York 1915-1918, adj. assistant attending physician to the Bellevue Hospital 1919-1923. During the latter period he became assistant visiting physician.
Besides his own numerous publications, many of which concerned pharmacology and therapy, Eggleston contributed to Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine, Nelson’s Loose leaf system of medicine
Bibliography:
- Essentials of prescription writing.
Philadelphia and London, 1913; 3rd edition, 1924.
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