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Daniel J. McCarthy
American neurologist, born June 22, 1874, Philadelphia; died 1965.
Associated eponyms:
McCarthy's supraorbital reflex
Percussion above arcus superciliaris (the supraorbital nerve) causes contraction of orbicularis palpebrarum with closure of lids unilaterally or bilaterally.
Biography:
Daniel J. McCarthy studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his doctorate in 1895. He later became professor of forensic medicine at this university as well as at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. He was also neurologist at the Philadelphia General Hospital and St. Agnes Hospital.
MacCarthy was the publisher of John James Reese’s (1818-1892) Text-Book of Medical jurisprudence and toxicology, first published in 1884.
Bibliography:
The prisoner of war in Germany. New York, 1917.
Dementia Praecox and the Adolescent Psychoses from the Organic Visceral Viewpoint as Regards Prognoses and Therapy.
The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1922, 78 (3): 319-502.
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