So, You're on a Disease?!

Ever so often people get coined a disease after their name. An eponyme. Regardless whether or not they came up with the given disease. Or due to some symptom, procedure, what have you...

(Alois Alzheimer perhaps did not invent Alzheimer's disease, and Lou Gehrig was a sportsman, and not a physician.)

It is the aim of this project to collect names here of individuals whose name is used as eponymes, to describe a medical condition, symptom, anatomic feature, procedure, and / or something in inherently related in medicine.

It is hoped that this project will collect as many people as possible in according to whom a given disease is named. And by this, it is hoped that the list eventually might serve both as an educational as well as an entertaining project.

On Jan. 7th 2017, Mikko & Tytti.

A

• Achilles (b. ca. 1200 BCE, Fict.) as in Achilles tendon (and naval vehicles and a lizard and in disambiguation).
• Alzheimer, Alois (1864-1915), as in Alzheimer's disease.

B

C

• Charcot, Jean-Martin (1825-1898) known for at least 15 eponymes, such as: i) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis which is also known both as Charcot's disease as well as Lou Gehrig's disease in the USA; ii) Charcot's triad, iii) Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease,
• Crohn, Burril Bernard (1884-1983) as in Crohn's disease.

F

• Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) as in Freudian slip and his school of psychoanalytic theories.

G

• Gehrig, Lou, an American baseball player, who become the face for ALS, please see Charcot.
• Goodpasture, Ernest (1886-1960), known for Goodpasture syndrome.

H

• von Hippel, Eugen as in von Hippel-Lindau disease and von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor.
• Horton, Bayard Taylor, known for i) cluster headache or Horton's neuralgia, ii) Horton's giant-cell arteritis, and iii) Horton's test in which histamine is used in the diagnostics of the headaches.
• Huntington, George Sumner (1850-1916), known for Huntinton's disease (aka. Huntington's chorea).
  
• Hakaru Hashimoto (1881−1934) - a Japanese physician of the medical school at Kyushu University, who first described the symptoms of persons with struma lymphomatosa, an intense infiltration of lymphocytes within the thyroid, in 1912 in a German publication The report gave new insight into a condition (hypothyroidism) more commonly seen in areas of iodine deficiency that was occurring in the developed world, and without evident causation by dietary deficiency.

L

• Langerhans, Paul Wilhelm (1847-1888) known for insulin secreting Langerhans cells. Diabetes was almost named after him. Eponymed also in Langerhans cells, skin cells concerned with the immune response and which sometimes contain Langerhans granules. In the same paper in which he described the exterior portion, it become known as the Layer of Langerhans. Langerin is a protein.
• Lindau, Arvid as in von Hippel-Lindau disease and von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor.

M

• Marie, Pierre (1853-1940) as in Chargot-Marie-Tooth.

P

• Pan. Etymology of panic goes to unexpected meeting of Pan in the woods, scaring the living daylights out of you.
• Pancoast, Henry as in Pancoast tumor of the lung.
• Parkinson, James (1755-1824), as in Parkinson's disease.
• Pick, Arnold (1851-1924), known for Pick's disease.
• Priapos as in Priapism.

S

• Salmon, Daniel Elmer (1850-1914) as in Salmonella.
• Sjögren, Henrik (1899-1986) as in Sjögren syndrome.

T

• Tooth, Howard Henry as in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

W

• von Willebrand, Erik Adolf (1870-1949), known for von Willebrand disease.