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Authors: Robert B Taylor
Publish Date: 2017
Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 121-147
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Many diseases syndromes and other entities carry the names of persons real and fictional As human anatomy was explored and as the afflictions of humankind came to be understood many discoveries were named for those who first described them Pott disease Hutchinson pupil Virchow node and Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease are just a few Yet eponyms have their detractors citing duplicate names and even instances in which an inappropriate person was honored This chapter provides the history of some of medicine’s favorite eponyms including some littleknown backstories of how the naming occurred
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