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George Minott Garland
American internist, born 1848; died March 2, 1926.
Associated eponyms:
Damoiseau-Ellis line
The upper limit of the percutatory demonstrable upper limit of a pleuritic exudate.
Garland's triangle
An approximately triangular area of relative resonance of varying intensity in the lower back, between the spine and Ellis-Damoiseau's line, found in the same side as a pleural effusion.
Biography:
George Minott Garland graduated doctor of medicine from Harvard University, Boston, in 1874. He was an assistant of physiology at his alma mater 1877-1881, from 1881 to 1892 assistant and instructor of clinical medicine, and finally physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Bibliography:
- Pneumo-dynamics. New York, 1878.
- Percussion outlines. With E. G. Cutler. Boston 1882.
- The modern treatment of pleurisy and pneumonia. Detroit, 1887.
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