Famous names in medicine

• oxford mushroom

  8 Jan 06, 17:09

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Christmas Disease???

  Yes...lack of Factor IX in the blood clotting cascade...alos known as heamophilia B
• oxford mushroom

  8 Jan 06, 17:25

  Sir MA Epstein and YM Barr who gave their names to the Epstein Barr virus. Epstein still works in the same building here
  
  I read the interesting account of how the virus was discovered. As with penicillin, it came about because of an error and the important lesson is not to throw things away just because you have made a mistake....look at it and think
• ndmmxiaomayi

  8 Jan 06, 18:50

  Originally posted by oxford mushroom:

  Yes...lack of Factor IX in the blood clotting cascade...alos known as heamophilia B

  Dot dot dot. At least give it a nicer name ma. People celebrate Christmas, and there you are, having Christmas disease.
• oxford mushroom

  10 Jan 06, 05:56

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Dot dot dot. At least give it a nicer name ma. People celebrate Christmas, and there you are, having Christmas disease.

  What about the reverse...people with names that sound like an illness. I remember a nice girl called melina...she did not realize that melina sounds like melena, which means black, tarry stool due to upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding
• ndmmxiaomayi

  10 Jan 06, 11:55

  Originally posted by oxford mushroom:

  What about the reverse...people with names that sound like an illness. I remember a nice girl called melina...she did not realize that melina sounds like melena, which means black, tarry stool due to upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding

  But she didn't suffer from upper gastronintestinal tract bleeding, right?
  
  If not, it's like she cursed herself or her parents cursed her.
• oxford mushroom

  10 Jan 06, 15:27

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  But she didn't suffer from upper gastronintestinal tract bleeding, right?
  
  If not, it's like she cursed herself or her parents cursed her.

  No, but the name does not sound that nice to medical practitioners...Another example is Amelia...in medicine it refers to babies born without limbs...
• thinkdifferent

  15 Jan 06, 03:35

  Crohn's disease and Bechterew's disease. I have a friend who has both of them.
• oxford mushroom

  15 Jan 06, 07:15

  Originally posted by thinkdifferent:

  Crohn's disease and Bechterew's disease. I have a friend who has both of them.

  After American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn, although it was apparently first described by Giovanni Battista Morgagni in the 16th century.
  
  As for Bechterew's disease, my goodness...where did your friend get that diagnosis from? I bet many doctors in Singapore wouldn't know what that is...I had to search for it myself. It's ankylosing spondylitis...quite common disease with the genetic association HLA B27. It was described by various people including W. von Bechterew (1883), Adolph Strumpell (1897), and Pierre Marie (189. Actually ankylosing spondylitis is more commonly known as Marie-Strumpell Disease in Singapore, or at least that's what they taught us in NUS a long time ago.
  
• thinkdifferent

  16 Jan 06, 02:09

  Originally posted by oxford mushroom:

  After American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn, although it was apparently first described by Giovanni Battista Morgagni in the 16th century.
  
  As for Bechterew's disease, my goodness...where did your friend get that diagnosis from? I bet many doctors in Singapore wouldn't know what that is...I had to search for it myself. It's ankylosing spondylitis...quite common disease with the genetic association HLA B27. It was described by various people including W. von Bechterew (1883), Adolph Strumpell (1897), and Pierre Marie (189. Actually ankylosing spondylitis is more commonly known as Marie-Strumpell Disease in Singapore, or at least that's what they taught us in NUS a long time ago.
  

  You are right, it wasn't diagnosed in Singapore.
• hisoka

  16 Jan 06, 02:20

  what about barrett's esophagus?
• fymk

  24 Jan 06, 07:35

  Sjögren's syndrome discovered by a swedish opthamologist Dr Henrik Sjögren who noticed the dry eyes and mouth in his patients . Just an irony that rheumatologists treat it . My aunt has it.
• oxford mushroom

  7 Feb 06, 06:15

  Originally posted by fymk:

  Sjögren's syndrome discovered by a swedish opthamologist Dr Henrik Sjögren who noticed the dry eyes and mouth in his patients . Just an irony that rheumatologists treat it . My aunt has it.

  Well, it is an autoimmune disorder after all.
• alfagal

  8 Feb 06, 20:24

  Rett's Disorder - Rett 1966
  
  Slow growth rate of brain after 5 months, decline social interest and lost of hand movements. Found only in girls
  
  William's Syndrome - Willams, Barret-Boyes & Lowe 1961
  
  Caused by microdeletion on long arm of Chromosome 7
  Distinct facial features, unusually sensitivity to to environmental sounds etc
  
  Turner Syndrome - Turner 1938
  
  Absence or structural abnormality of one X chromosone, disrupting normal X pairing in the foetal ovary, leading to premature germ cell loss
• oxford mushroom

  20 Feb 06, 05:00

  Here is an interesting link those who are interested might explore:
  
  http://www.whonamedit.com/