Parkinson was the first person to systematically describe 6 individuals with symptoms of the disease that bears his name.

Hodgkin described the disease that bears his name ( Hodgkin's lymphoma ) in 1832, in a paper titled On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen.

He is passionate about his work and dedicates himself to finding a cure for " Ridgeway's disease "-the aetiology of which bears a marked resemblance to multiple sclerosis.

Trichinella spiralis is a nematode parasite, occurring in rats, pigs, bears and humans, and is responsible for the disease trichinosis.

George Huntington ( April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916 ) was an American physician who contributed a classic clinical description of the disease that bears his name -- Huntington's disease.

His uncle, Eugen von Hippel, described the ophthalmic hemangiomata that are part of von Hippel-Lindau disease, which bears his name.

The continent bears 25 % of the world ’ s ‘ burden ’ of disease, yet has only 3 % of the world ’ s health workers and only 1 % of global health expenditure.

Ataxia is also the name of a disease in the Elder Scrolls console and PC games.

Since German was the lingua franca of science ( and especially of psychiatry ) at that time, Kraepelin's use of Alzheimer's disease in a textbook made the name famous.

* Consumption ( disease ), an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis

Although " dementia " is part of the name of the disease, Kraepelin did not intend it to be similar to senile dementia and rarely used this term to refer to the end state of the disease.

It derives its name from the idea that DNA can be used to supplement or alter genes within an individual's cells as a therapy to treat disease.

* Idiopathic Massive Osteolysis, a name for Gorham's disease

* 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.

In the following decade, French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne gave a comprehensive account of thirteen boys with the most common and severe form of the disease, which now carries his name — Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The name " melancholia " comes from the old medical belief of the four humors: disease or ailment being caused by an imbalance in one or other of the four basic bodily liquids, or humors.

Neurological diseases often have psychiatric manifestations, such as post-stroke depression, depression and dementia associated with Parkinson's disease, mood and cognitive dysfunctions in Alzheimer's disease and Huntington disease, to name a few.

Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease is a distinct disease that also leads to cysts in the kidneys and liver, typically presents in childhood, only affects about 1 in 20, 000 people < ref name =" Zerres_1998 "> and has different causes and prognosis.

Although the disease of cirrhosis was known, Laennec gave cirrhosis its name, using the Greek word ( kirrhos, tawny ) that referred to the tawny, yellow nodules characteristic of the disease.

Rabbit meat was once commonly sold in Sydney, Australia, the sellers of which giving the name to the rugby league team the South Sydney Rabbitohs, but quickly became unpopular after the disease myxomatosis was introduced in an attempt to wipe out the feral rabbit population ( see also Rabbits in Australia ).

In some patients, a toxic phase follows, in which liver damage with jaundice ( inspiring the name of the disease ) can occur and lead to death.

A former superintendent of the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology in the city of Madras ( the present day Chennai ), India, Kirk Patrick, was the first to have found the adenovirus that caused conjunctivitis, leading to the name Madras eye for the disease.

in the first century CE ) used that word, with the intended meaning “ excessive discharge of urine ”, as the name for the disease.

The pox is related to the vaccinia virus and got its name from the distribution of the disease when dairymaids touched the udders of infected cows.

The Great Society program, with its name coined from one of Johnson's speeches, became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, Medicaid, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote.

His name is still attached to some disease signs, e. g., von Arlt's line in trachoma.

The name Ebola virus is derived from the Ebola River ( a river that was at first thought to be in close proximity to the area in Zaire where the first recorded Ebola virus disease outbreak occurred ) and the taxonomic suffix virus.

Edward Vernon, the British admiral who devised the scheme, saw his 4, 000 occupying troops capitulate to local guerilla resistance, and more critically, a disease epidemic, forcing him to withdraw his fleet to British-owned Jamaica.

It was not publicly known in 1904 that Alexei had haemophilia, a disease that was widespread among European royalty descended from the British Queen Victoria, who was Alexei's great-grandmother.

Cocoa farmers rallied to his cause because they disagreed with British policy to contain swollen shoot disease.

* 1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease ( Bovine spongiform encephalopathy ).

In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer William Beveridge, who had identified five " Giant Evils " afflicting the working class of the pre-war period: " want " ( poverty ), disease, " ignorance " ( lack of access to education ), " squalor " ( poor housing ), and " idleness " ( unemployment ).

In infants, scurvy is sometimes referred to as Barlow's disease, named after Sir Thomas Barlow, a British physician who described it.

When they did so, a failed attack was made on the South American port of Cartagena which left thousands of British troops dead, over half from disease, and cost many ships.

* October 2 – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

* British troops invade the island of Saint-Domingue ( now Haiti ) to suppress a slave rebellion but are forced to withdraw by disease and the army of Toussaint Louverture.

Introduced disease and conflict with the British colonists greatly weakened Indigenous Australians throughout the period.

Truganini, a Tasmanian Aboriginal who survived the outbreak of disease and conflicts which followed the British colonisation of Van Diemen's Land.

The combined effects of disease, dispossession, intermarriage and conflict saw a collapse of the Aboriginal population from a few thousand people when the British arrived, to a few hundred by the 1830s.

Some parts of the British press and British government expected the campaign to be over within months, and the protracted war gradually became less popular, especially after revelations about the conditions in the concentration camps ( where 26 thousand women and children died of disease and malnutrition ).

Safe trade, they argue, would have removed the need for any such measures, as vaccination of British beef cattle would have been possible ( the burning was to prevent British exports of beef from being rejected by its trade partners, who would not have been able to tell vaccinated from infected beef ), and the foot-and-mouth disease was not so dangerous to humans that it could have justified dooming so many fellow citizens to die of the dioxin-caused cancers.

The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.

The increase in urban populations brought with it problems of epidemic disease, the response to which was a focus on public health, the rise in the UK of municipal engineering and the inclusion in British legislation of provisions such as minimum widths of street in relation to heights of buildings in order to ensure adequate light and ventilation.

After two months of fighting, the attack failed before a skilfully conducted defence, with a dreadful loss of ships and lives to the British assailants, many due to disease.

The disease is named after the British ophthalmologist Waren Tay, who in 1881 first described a symptomatic red spot on the retina of the eye, and after the American neurologist Bernard Sachs of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, who described in 1887 the cellular changes of Tay – Sachs disease and noted an increased disease prevalence in the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish population.

Wilson's disease is named after Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson ( 1878 – 1937 ), the British neurologist who first described the condition in 1912.

In rare cases where none of the oral treatments are effective, especially in severe neurological disease, dimercaprol ( British anti-Lewisite ) is still occasionally necessary.