Henri-Louis Roger

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Henri-Louis Roger (1809-1891) was a French pediatrician who is largely remembered for his work with cardiological issues. His name is lent to two eponymous terms: Maladie de Roger (Roger's disease), which is a congenital asymptomatic ventricular septal defect (VSD), and Bruit de Roger (Roger's murmur), which is a loud pansystolic murmur of a ventricular septal defect.

With pathologist Jean Baptiste Barth (1806-1877), Roger published several works on auscultation, including "A Manual of Auscultation and Percussion" and "A Practical Treatise on Auscultation", which have been translated into English.