Physicians Famous Chiefly As Eponyms
See also Medical eponyms
Among the better known eponyms:
- Thomas Addison (1793–1860) - Addison's disease
- Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) - Alzheimer's disease
- Hans Asperger (1906–1980) — Asperger syndrome
- Albert Calmette (1863–1933)- Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for tuberculosis
- Carlos Chagas (1879–1934) - Chagas disease
- Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) - Maladie de Charcot, Charcot joints, Charcot's triad, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Jerome W. Conn (1907–1981) - Conn's Syndrome (primary hyperaldosteronism)
- Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884–1983) - Crohn's disease
- Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) - Golgi apparatus
- Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814) - Guillotine
- Wilhelm Frederick von Ludwig (1790–1865) - Ludwig's angina
- Charles Mantoux (1877–1947) - Mantoux test for tuberculosis
- Antoine Marfan (1858–1942) - Marfan syndrome
- Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) - Mitchell's disease
- James Paget (1814–1899) - Paget's disease
- James Parkinson (1755–1824) - Parkinson's syndrome
- Juan Rosai (born 1940) - Rosai–Dorfman disease
- Karl Adolph von Basedow - Basedow disease
- Paul Broca - Broca's area
- David Bruce - Brucellosis
- Denis Parsons Burkitt - Burkitt lymphoma
- Harvey Cushing - Cushing's disease
- John Langdon Down - Down syndrome
- Bartolomeo Eustachi - Eustachian tube
- Gabriele Falloppio - Fallopian tube
- Ernst Gräfenberg - Gräfenberg spot (G-spot)
- Gerhard Armauer Hansen - Hansen's disease
- Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson - Wilson's disease
- Thomas Hodgkin - Hodgkin's disease
- George Huntington - Huntington's disease
- Moritz Kaposi - Kaposi sarcoma
- Daniel Elmer Salmon - Salmonella
- Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette - Tourette syndrome
- Gunnar B. Stickler - Stickler syndrome
- Hulusi Behçet - Behçet's disease
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Famous quotes containing the words physicians, famous and/or chiefly:
“If the physicians had not their cassocks and their mules, if the doctors had not their square caps and their robes four times too wide, they would never had duped the world, which cannot resist so original an appearance.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear:
Oh, ‘tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.”
—Unknown. The Lincolnshire Poacher (l. 1–4)
“That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short—not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)