Apgar, Virginia (1909–1974)

TL;DR: For his original work in congenital deformities he was called America's first plastic surgeon and "A genius of his time," summed up an article describing his innovations in ophthalmology.

TL;DR: The physician-poet from Verona who, in 1530, published a three-volume epic poem called Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus, became famous, since his poetic works spread like an infectious disease, and is considered a progenitor of modern bacteriology.

TL;DR: The history of cystoscopy begins with Doctor Bozzini of Frankfort in 1807, and the instruments, presently used by urologists, are refinements of the cystoscope-prototype of Maximilian Nitze, first demonstrated in 1877.

TL;DR: In the context of haemolytic disease of the newborn, ABO incompatibility means that the father's blood is unsuitable for transfusion into the mother, and our interest in this stems from the work of Levine (1943), who noted a deficiency of such mating types in the parents of affected children as mentioned in this paper.