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Why are diseases named for doctors, but aside from the Heimlich maneuver, not too many cures or treatments?

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A

• Aarskog-Scott syndrome – Dagfinn Aarskog, Charles Scott
• Aase-Smith syndrome – Jon Morton Aase, David Weyhe Smith
• Abdallat Davis Farrage syndrome – Adnan Al Abdallat, S.M. Davis, James Robert Farrage
• Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome – Emil Abderhalden, Eduard Kauffman, George Lignac
• Abercrombie disease – John Abercrombie
• Achard-Thiers syndrome – Emile Achard, Joseph Thiers
• Ackerman tumor – Lauren Ackerman
• Addison disease – Thomas Addison
• Adson-Caffey syndrome – Alfred Adson, I.R. Caffey
• Aicardi syndrome – Jean Aicardi
• Alagille syndrome – Daniel Alagille
• Albers-Schönberg disease – Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
• Albright syndrome – Fuller Albright
• Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease – Fuller Albright, Allan Macy Butler, Esther Bloomberg
• Albright-Hadorn syndrome – Fuller Albright, Walter Hadorn
• Alexander disease – William Stuart Alexander
• Alpers disease – Bernard Jacob Alpers
• Alport syndrome – Arthur Cecil Alport
• Alström syndrome – Carl Henry Alström
• Alzheimer disease – Alois Alzheimer
• Anders disease – James Meschter Anders
• Andersen disease – Dorothy Andersen
• Anderson-Fabry disease – William Anderson, Johannes Fabry
• Angelman syndrome – Harry Angelman
• Angelucci syndrome – Arnaldo Angelucci
• Anton–Babinski syndrome – Gabriel Anton, Joseph Babinski
• Apert syndrome – Eugène Apert
• Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy – François-Amilcar Aran, Guillaume Duchenne
• Armanni-Ebstein nephropathy – Luciano Armanni, Wilhelm Ebstein
• Arnold-Chiari malformation – Julius Arnold, Hans Chiari
• Arthus phenomenon – Nicolas Maurice Arthus
• Asherman syndrome – Joseph G. Asherman
• Asperger syndrome – Hans Asperger
• Avellis syndrome – Georg Avellis
• Ayerza syndrome – Abel Ayerza
• Ayerza-Arrillaga syndrome – Abel Ayerza, Francisco Arrillaga

[edit] B

• Babington disease – Benjamin Babington
• Babinski-Fröhlich syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Alfred Fröhlich
• Babinski-Froment syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Jules Froment
• Babinski-Nageotte syndrome – Joseph Babinski, Jean Nageotte
• Baker cyst – William Morrant Baker
• Baló's disease or Balo concentric sclerosis – József Baló
• Bamberger disease – Heinrich von Bamberger
• Bamberger-Marie disease – Eugen von Bamberger, Pierre Marie
• Bancroft filariasis – Joseph Bancroft
• Bang's disease – Bernhard Bang
• Bankart lesion – Arthur Bankart
• Banti's disease – Guido Banti
• Bárány syndrome – Robert Bárány
• Barlow disease – Thomas Barlow
• Barlow syndrome – John Barlow
• Barraquer-Simons syndrome – Luis Barraquer Roviralta, Arthur Simons
• Barré-Liéou syndrome – Jean Alexandre Barré, Yang-Choen Liéou
• Barrett's ulcer – Norman Barrett
• Bart-Pumphrey syndrome – R.S. Bart, R.E. Pumphrey
• Bartholin cyst – Caspar Bartholin
• Bartter syndrome – Frederic Bartter
• Basedow disease – Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Basedow syndrome – Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome – Frank Bassen, Abraham Kornzweig
• Batten disease – Frederick Batten
• Bazin disease – Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin
• Becker muscular dystrophy – Peter Emil Becker
• Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome – John Bruce Beckwith, Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann
• Behçet disease – Hulusi Behçet
• Bekhterev disease – Vladimir Bekhterev
• Bell palsy – Charles Bell
• Benedikt syndrome – Moritz Benedikt
• Benjamin syndrome – E. Benjamin
• Berger's disease – Jean Berger
• Bergeron disease – Etienne-Jules Bergeron
• Bernard syndrome – Claude Bernard
• Bernard-Soulier syndrome – Jean Bernard, Jean Pierre Soulier
• Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia – Martin Bernhardt, Vladimir Karlovich Roth
• Bernheim syndrome – Hippolyte Bernheim
• Besnier prurigo – Ernest Henri Besnier
• Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease – Ernest Henri Besnier, Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck, Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann
• Biermer anaemia – Michael Anton Biermer
• Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis – Edwin Bickerstaff
• Bilharzia – Theodor Maximilian Bilharz
• Bing-Neel syndrome – Jens Bing, Axel Valdemar Neel
• Binswanger dementia – Otto Binswanger
• Bland-White-Garland syndrome – Edward Franklin Bland, Paul Dudley White, Joseph Garland
• Bloom syndrome – David Bloom
• Blount syndrome – Walter Putnam Blount
• Boerhaave syndrome – Herman Boerhaave
• Bogorad syndrome – F.A. Bogorad
• Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome – Kristine Bonnevie, Otto Ullrich
• Bourneville-Pringle disease – Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, John James Pringle
• Bowen disease – John T. Bowen
• Brailsford-Morquio syndrome – James Frederick Brailsford, Luís Morquio
• Brandt syndrome – Thore Edvard Brandt
• Brenner tumour – Fritz Brenner
• Brewer kidney – George Emerson Brewer
• Bright disease – Richard Bright
• Brill-Symmers disease – Nathan Brill, Douglas Symmers
• Brill-Zinsser disease – Nathan Brill, Hans Zinsser
• Briquet syndrome – Paul Briquet
• Brissaud disease – Édouard Brissaud
• Brissaud-Sicard syndrome – Édouard Brissaud, Jean-Athanase Sicard
• Broadbent apoplexy – William Broadbent
• Brock syndrome – Russell Claude Brock
• Brodie abscess – Benjamin Collins Brodie
• Brodie syndrome – Benjamin Collins Brodie
• Brooke epithelioma – Henry Ambrose Grundy Brooke
• Brown-Séquard syndrome – Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
• Brucellosis – David Bruce
• Brugada syndrome – the Brugada brothers
• Bruns syndrome – Ludwig Bruns
• Bruton-Gitlin syndrome – Ogden Carr Bruton, David Gitlin
• Budd-Chiari syndrome – George Budd, Hans Chiari
• Buerger disease – Leo Buerger
• Bumpke syndrome – Oswald Conrad Edouard Bumke
• Bürger-Grütz syndrome – Max Burger, Otto Grutz
• Burkitt lymphoma – Denis Parsons Burkitt
• Burnett syndrome – Charles Hoyt Burnett
• Bywaters syndrome – Eric Bywaters

[edit] C

• Caffey-Silverman syndrome – John Patrick Caffey, William Aaron Silverman
• Calvé disease – Jacques Calvé
• Canavan disease – Myrtelle Canavan
• Cannon syndrome – Walter Cannon
• Capgras syndrome – Joseph Capgras
• Caplan's syndrome – Anthony Caplan
• Caroli syndrome – Jacques Caroli
• Carrión's disease – Daniel Alcides Carrión
• Castleman disease – Benjamin Castleman
• Céstan-Chenais syndrome – Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan, Louis Jean Chennais
• Chagas disease – Carlos Chagas
• Charcot's disease – Jean-Martin Charcot
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease – Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, Howard Henry Tooth
• Cheadle's disease – Walter Butler Cheadle
• Chédiak-Higashi syndrome – Alexander Chédiak, Otokata Higashi
• Chiari-Frommel syndrome – Johann Baptist Chiari, Richard Frommel
• Chilaiditi syndrome – Demetrius Chilaiditi
• Christ-Siemens-Touraine Syndrome – Josef Christ, Hermann Werner Siemens, Albert Touraine
• Christensen-Krabbe disease – Erna Christensen, Knud Krabbe
• Christmas disease – Stephen Christmas
• Churg-Strauss syndrome – Jacob Churg, Lotte Straus
• Claude syndrome – Henri Claude
• Clerambault syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault
• Clerambault-Kandinsky syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault, Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky
• Coats disease – George Coats
• Cock peculiar tumor – Edward Cock
• Cockayne syndrome – Edward Alfred Cockayne
• Cogan's syndrome – David Glendenning Cogan
• Collet-Sicard syndrome – Frédéric Justin Collet, Jean-Athanase Sicard
• Concato disease – Luigi Maria Concato
• Conn's Syndrome – Jerome Conn
• Cooley's anemia – Thomas Benton Cooley
• Cori Disease – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori
• Cornelia de Lange syndrome – Cornelia Catharina de Lange
• Cotard's Syndrome – Jules Cotard
• Costen syndrome – James Bray Costen
• Crigler-Najjar syndrome – John Fielding Crigler, Victor Assad Najjar
• Crocq-Cassirer syndrome – Jean Crocq, Richard Cassirer
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Alfons Maria Jakob
• Crohn's disease – Burrill Bernard Crohn
• Cronkite-Canada syndrome – L.W. Cronkite, Wilma Canada
• Crouzon syndrome – Octave Crouzon
• Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease – Jean Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten
• Cruz disease – Osvaldo Gonçalves Cruz
• Curling's ulcer – Thomas Blizard Curling
• Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome – Hans Curschmann, Frederick Batten, Hans Gustav Steinhart
• Cushing's disease – Harvey Cushing

[edit] D

• Da Costa syndrome – Jacob Mendez Da Costa
• Dalrymple disease – John Dalrymple
• Danbolt-Closs syndrome – Niels Christian Gauslaa Danbolt, Karl Philipp Closs
• Dandy-Walker syndrome
• De Clérambault's syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
• de Quervain's disease – Fritz de Quervain
• de Quervain's thyroiditis – Fritz de Quervain
• Dejerine-Sottas disease – Joseph Jules Dejerine, Jules Sottas
• Dennie-Marfan syndrome – Charles Clayton Dennie, Antoine Marfan
• Dent's disease – C. E. Dent
• Denys-Drash syndrome –
• Dercum's disease – Francis Xavier Dercum
• Devic's disease – Eugène Devic
• DiGeorge syndrome – Angelo DiGeorge
• Di Guglielmo's disease – Giovanni di Gugliemo
• Donovanosis – Charles Donovan
• Down syndrome – John Langdon Down
• Dressler's syndrome – Lucas Dressler
• Duane syndrome – Alexander Duane
• Dubin–Johnson syndrome
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy – Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
• Duke's disease – Clement Dukes
• Duncan's disease –
• Duncan's syndrome
• Dupuytren's contracture – Baron Guillaume Dupuytren
• Duroziez's disease – Paul Louis Duroziez

[edit] E

• Eales disease – Henry Eales
• Edwards syndrome – John H. Edwards
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome – Edvard Ehlers, Henri-Alexandre Danlos
• Ehrlichiosis – Paul Ehrlich
• Ekbom's Syndrome – Karl Axel Ekborn
• Erdheim-Chester disease – Jakob Erdheim, William Chester
• Escherichia coli– Theodor Escherich

[edit] F

• Fabry disease – Johannes Fabry
• Fanconi anemia – Guido Fanconi
• Fanconi syndrome – Guido Fanconi
• Farber disease – Sidney Farber
• Felty's syndrome – Augustus Roi Felty
• Fitz-Hugh–Curtis syndrome – Thomas Fitz-Hugh Jr, Arthur Hale Curtis
• Foix-Alajouanine disease – Charles Foix, Théophile Alajouanine
• Fournier gangrene – Jean Alfred Fournier
• Forbe's Disease – Gilbert Burnett Forbes
• Friedreich's ataxia – Nikolaus Friedreich
• Fuchs' dystrophy – Ernst Fuchs

[edit] G

• Ganser syndrome – Sigbert Ganser
• Gaucher's disease – Philippe Gaucher
• Ghon focus – Anton Ghon
• Gilbert syndrome – Augustin Nicolas Gilbert, French gastroenterologist
• Graves' disease – Robert James Graves
• Graves-Basedow disease – Robert James Graves, Karl Adolph von Basedow
• Grawitz tumor (nephrocellular carcinoma) – Paul Albert Grawitz, German pathologist
• Grinker myelinopathy
• Guillain-Barré syndrome – Georges Guillain, Jean Alexandre Barré
• Gunther's disease – Hans Gunther
• Glanzmann's thrombasthenia – Eduard Glanzmann
• Gorlin-Goltz syndrome – Robert J. Gorlin, Robert W. Goltz

[edit] H

• Hailey-Hailey disease – Hugh Edward Hailey, William Howard Hailey
• Hallervorden-Spatz disease – Julius Hallervorden, Hugo Spatz
• Hand-Schüller-Christian disease – Alfred Hand, Artur Schüller, Henry Asbury Christian
• Hansen's disease – Gerhard Armauer Hansen
• Hardikar Syndrome – Winita Hardikar
• Hartnup disease –
• Hashimoto thyroiditis – Hashimoto Hakaru
• Henoch-Schönlein purpura – Eduard Heinrich Henoch, Johann Lukas Schönlein
• Heyde's syndrome – Edward C. Heyde
• Hirschsprung disease – Harald Hirschsprung, Danish physician
• Hodgkin disease, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma – Thomas Hodgkin
• Horton headache – Bayard Taylor Horton
• Huntington's disease – George Huntington

[edit] J

• Jaeken's disease – Jaak Jaeken
• Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease – Alfons Maria Jakob, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt

[edit] K

• Kahler's disease – Otto Kahler
• Kanner syndrome – Leo Kanner (this name is rarely used now)
• Kaposi sarcoma – Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist
• Kashin-Beck disease – Nicolai Ivanowich Kashin, Evgeny Vladimirovich Bek, Russian military physicians
• Kawasaki disease – Tomisaku Kawasaki
• Kearns-Sayre syndrome – Thomas P. Kearns, George Pomeroy Sayre
• Kenny syndrome – Frederic Marshal Kenny
• Kienbock's disease – Robert Kienböck, Austrian radiologist
• Kikuchi's disease – Masahiro Kikuchi, Y.Fujimoto
• Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease – Paul Kimmelstiel, Clifford Wilson
• Kimura's disease – T. Kimura
• King-Kopetzky syndrome – P.F.King, Samuel J. Kopetzky
• Kinsbourne syndrome – Marcel Kinsbourne, Austrian neurologist.
• Kjer's optic neuropathy – Poul Kjer, Danish ophthalmologist
• Klatskin's tumor – Gerald Klatskin
• Klinefelter's syndrome – Harry Klinefelter
• Klüver-Bucy syndrome – Heinrich Klüver, Paul Bucy
• Köhler disease – Alban Köhler, German radiologist.
• Korsakoff syndrome – Sergei Korsakof, neuropsychiatrist
• Krabbe's disease – Knud Haraldsen Krabbe, Danish neurologist
• Krukenberg tumor – Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg, German physician
• Kugelberg-Welander disease – Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander

[edit] L

• Lafora's disease – Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora, a Spanish neuropathologist
• Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé and Georg Perthes
• Leigh's disease – Denis Archibald Leigh, British psychiatrist
• Leiner syndrome – Karl Leiner, André Moussous
• Leishmaniasis – Sir William Boog Leishman
• Lemierre's syndrome – André Lemierre
• Lenègre's disease – Jean Lenègre
• Lesch-Nyhan syndrome – Michael Lesch, William Leo Nyhan, a pediatrician
• Letterer-Siwe disease – Erich Letterer, Sture Siwe
• Lev's disease – Maurice Lev, Jean Lenègre
• Libman-Sacks disease – Emanuel Libman, Benjamin Sacks
• Lobomycosis – Jorge Lobo, Brazilian dermatologist
• Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis – Wilhelm Löffler
• Ludwig's angina – Wilhelm Friedrich von Ludwig, German physician
• Lynch syndrome – Henry T. Lynch

[edit] M

• Machado-Joseph disease (Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3) –
• Marie-Foix-Alajouanine syndrome – Pierre Marie, Charles Foix, Théophile Alajouanine
• Maladie de Charcot, French name for Motor Neurone Disease – Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist
• Mallory-Weiss syndrome – G. Kenneth Mallory and Soma Weiss
• Mansonellosis – Sir Patrick Manson
• Marburg multiple sclerosis – Otto Marburg
• Marfan syndrome – - Antoine Marfan, French pediatrician.
• Marshall-Smith syndrome – Richard E. Marshall and David Weyhe Smith
• McArdle's Disease – Brian McArdle
• McCune-Albright syndrome – Donovan James McCune and Fuller Albright
• Meig's syndrome – Joe Vincent Meigs
• Ménétrier's disease – Pierre Eugène Ménétrier, French physician
• Ménière’s disease – Prosper Ménière
• Menkes disease – John Hans Menkes
• Mondor's disease – Henri Mondor, French surgeon.
• Monge's disease – Carlos Monge
• Mucha-Habermann disease –

[edit] N

• Noonan syndrome – Jacqueline Noonan

[edit] O

• Ormond disease – John Kelso Ormond
• Osgood-Schlatter disease – Robert Bayley Osgood, Carl B. Schlatter
• Osler-Weber-Rendu – Sir William Osler, Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu and Frederick Parkes Weber

[edit] P

• Paget's disease of bone (* Paget's disease) – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Paget's disease of the breast (* Paget's disease of the nipple) – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Paget's disease of the penis – Sir James Paget, British surgeon
• Parkinson's disease – James Parkinson –
• Patau syndrome – Klaus Patau
• Pelizeus-Merzbacher disease – Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus and Ludwig Merzbacher
• Perthes syndrome – Arthur Legg, Jacques Calvé and Georg Perthes
• Peyronie's disease – François Gigot de la Peyronie
• Pick's disease – Arnold Pick
• Pickardt syndrome –
• Plummer's disease – Henry Stanley Plummer
• Poland's syndrome – Sir Alfred Poland
• Pompe's disease – Johann Cassianius Pompe
• Pott's disease – Percivall Pott
• Pott's Puffy Tumor – Percivall Pott
• Potter sequence – Edith Potter
• Prader-Willi syndrome – Andrea Prader, (Alexis Labhart) and Heinrich Willi
• Prinzmetal angina – Myron Prinzmetal

[edit] R

• Ramsay Hunt syndrome – James Ramsay Hunt, American neurologist
• Raynaud's disease – Maurice Raynaud, French physician
• Refsum's disease – Sigvald Bernhard Refsum, Norwegian neurologist
• Reiter's syndrome – Hans Conrad Julius Reiter, German physician
• Rett Syndrome – Andreas Rett, Austrian pediatrician
• Reye's syndrome – R. Douglas Reye
• Rickettsiosis – Howard Taylor Ricketts
• Riggs' disease – John M. Riggs (dentist)
• Riley-Day syndrome – Conrad Milton Riley, Richard Lawrence Day
• Ritter's disease – Baron Gottfried Ritter von Rittershain
• Robles Disease [1] (Onchocercosis [2]) – Rodolfo Robles, Guatemalan physician
• Roger's disease – Henri Louis Roger
• Rotor syndrome – Arturo Belleza Rotor, Filipino internist
• Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome – Jack Herbert Rubinstein, Hooshang Taybi

[edit] S

• Salmonella – Daniel Elmer Salmon
• Sandhoff disease – Konrad Sandhoff
• Schamberg's disease – Jay Frank Schamberg
• Schilder's disease – Paul Ferdinand Schilder
• Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome – Albert Schinzel, Andreas Giedion
• Seligmann's disease – Maxime Seligmann
• Sever's disease – J.W.Sever
• Sheehan's syndrome – Harold Leeming Sheehan
• Silver-Russell syndrome – Henry Silver, Alexander Russell
• Simmond's Disease – Moritz Simmonds
• Sjogren's syndrome – Henrik Sjögren, Swedish ophthalmologist
• Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome –
• Stevens-Johnson syndrome – Albert Mason Stevens, Frank Chambliss Johnson, American pediatricians
• Sturge-Weber disease – William Allen Sturge, Frederick Parkes Weber
• Still's disease – Sir George Frederick Still
• Susac's syndrome – John Susac

[edit] T

• Takayasu's arteritis – Mikito Takayasu, Japanese ophthalmologist
• Tay-Sachs disease – Warren Tay, Bernard Sachs
• Theileriosis – Sir Arnold Theiler
• Thomsen's disease – Julius Thomsen, Danish physician,
• Tietz syndrome – W.Tietz
• Tietze's syndrome – Alexander Tietze
• Tourette syndrome – Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette
• Treacher Collins syndrome (Mandibulofacial dysostosis) – Edward Treacher Collins
• Turcot syndrome – Jacques Turcot
• Turner's syndrome – Henry Turner

[edit] U

• Unverricht-Lundborg disease – Heinrich Unverricht, Herman Bernhard Lundborg
• Usher syndrome – Charles Usher

[edit] V

• Vincent's angina – Henri Vincent, French physician
• Virchow's syndrome – Rudolf Virchow, German physician
• Von Gierke's disease – Edgar von Gierke
• Von Hippel-Lindau disease – Eugen von Hippel; Arvid Vilhelm Lindau, Swedish pathologist
• Von Recklinghausen's disease (* neurofibromatosis) – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
• Von Willebrand's disease – Erik Adolf von Willebrand

[edit] W

• Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia – Jan G. Waldenström, Swedish physician
• Warkany syndrome (trisomy) – Joseph Warkany, American human geneticist and pediatrician
• Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome – Rupert Waterhouse, an English physician, Carl Friderichsen, a Danish pediatrician
• Weber-Christian disease – Frederick Parkes Weber, Henry Asbury Christian
• Wegener's granulomatosis – Friedrich Wegener
• Weil's disease – Adolf Weil
• Wells syndrome – George Wells
• Werner's syndrome – Otto Werner, German scientist
• Wernicke's encephalopathy – Karl Wernicke
• Whipple's disease – George Hoyt Whipple
• Williams syndrome – J. C. P. Willams, New Zealand cardiologist
• Wilms' tumor – Max Wilms, German surgeon
• Wilson's disease – Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome – Alfred Wiskott, Robert Aldrich
• Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease – Karl Gunnar Vilhelm Wohlfart, Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg, Lisa Welander
• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome – Louis Wolff, Sir John Parkinson (physician), Paul Dudley White
• Wolman disease – Moshe Wolman

[edit] X Y Z

• Zellweger syndrome – Hans Zellweger
• Zieve's syndrome – Leslie Zieve
• Zollinger-Ellison syndrome – Robert Zollinger, Edwin Ellison, American surgeons