Tourette never thought that the neurodegenerative disorder will be named after him. He named it Maladie Des Tics, but the Supervisor of Tourette thought otherwise and named that hard-pronounced disease as Tourette syndrome. Tourette was never successful in treating this disease and got even shot in his head by a suffering patient. However, he survived and so is his name after the disease.
7. Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Thomas Hodgkin of Britain first identified the lymphoma in 1832 in his studies on spleen and glands. The disease was categorized as cancerous melanoma but Samuel Wilks rediscovered the disease and named it after the original discoverer.
8. Bright’s disease
The disease is no eye disease. The disease was actually named after Richard Bright who discovered this kidney disease in 1927. The disease was later found to be bunch of smaller diseases, so the name is rarely used nowadays.
9. Addison’s disease
Thomas Addison was colleague of Bright and Hodgkins. He discovered the Addison’s disease in 1855. The disease is an Adrenal gland disorder. The Guy’s hospital has a big place in medical history as founder hospital of so many diseases.
10. Tay-Sachs disease
In 1881, Warren Tay was a British Ophthalmologist, who first discovered the disease with red spots on eye’s retina. Bernard Sachs, who in 1887 found the root cause of the disease, further researched the disease. The medical community however decided to give commemoration to both Tay and Sachs for their useful contribution and named the disease after both of them.
11. Turner syndrome
Turner Syndrome is a genetic chromosomal disorder. In the year 1938, Henry Turner first identified the disease and found the root cause behind it. Later, the condition was named after him for his useful contribution in identifying the disorder.
12. Klinefelter’s syndrome
Harry Klinefelter, an endocrinologist from Boston identified the genetic disorder of men having a pair of X chromosomes with Y chromosome. Later the disease was named after him with the efforts of his mentor Dr. Fuller Albright.
13. Asperger’s syndrome
Autism is a serious disease among children. However, the founder of the disease, Hans Asperger never got any recognition as his work was mostly in German. The recognition came in 1981 when the work was redrafted and published in English. He studied nearly 400 children to identify the disease.
