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 physicians say, they are not materialists; but they are:MSpirit is matter reduced to an extreme thinness: O so thin!—But the definition of spiritual should be, that which is its own evidence. What notions do they attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing, and give them the occasion to profane them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)