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Walker Overend
English physician, born 1858, Keighley, Yorkshire; died February 10, 1926, St. Leonards.
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:
Walker Overend studied in Oxford, Heidelberg, and Strassburg, and for a brief period of time was lecturer in physiology at St. George’s Hospital. He received his doctorate at Oxford in 1895. Following a period in practice he turned to roentgenology, working as a radiologist at Buchanan Hospital, Hasting, assistant a the radiological department of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, and as radiologist in St. Leonards. He died there on February 10, 1926. Overend was one of the first to recognise the importance of radiology in diagnosing diseases of the lungs. He was a prolific writer.
Bibliography:
- Preliminary note on a new cranial reflex. The Lancet, 1896, 1: 619.
- The elements og human physiology. London, 1891.
- The radiography of the chest. 2 volumes; London, 1920.
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