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:
“The sick are parasites on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To continue vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations once the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to occasion a deep contempt within society.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“... teaching to me was anathema, chiefly because it would condemn me to a world of petticoats.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)