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(Eponymists in Medicine.) by Diana Berry and Campbell Mackenzie. 296 pp., illustrated. London, Royal Society of Medicine Services, 1992. £12.95 (cloth); £7.95 (paper). ISBN 1-85315-187-4.

It is appropriate to bear in mind Fothergill's 1887 admonition that "so long as a disease carries a man's name it shows we know little about it." Nothing can be truer than this contention when it comes to nephritis, which originally carried the designation "Bright's disease." The eponym spread like wildfire to the Continent and to the Americas, for once Bright had pointed out the obvious, it was apparent that a major step forward had been taken in the understanding of the pathogenesis of dropsy (edema). The eponym has now been dropped, but nephrologists are no wiser today about the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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