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Edited by Peter J. Koehler, George W. Bruyn, and John M.S. Pearce. 386 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. $54.95. ISBN 0-19-513366-8.

I was never very enthusiastic about eponyms as a student, having enough problems with keeping the manifestations of the lateral medullary syndrome straight without the added burden of remembering that Adolf Wallenberg was the syndrome's original describer. My annoyance with the commemoration of some persons by appending their names to certain cells, structures, or diseases (often these physicians had actually gotten things wrong or were not even first) only grew as medical school progressed. After I recognized a patient's description of electric-shock–like sensations that occurred with neck movement as Lhermitte's sign (more accurately a symptom), I was offered an immediate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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