TY - JOUR
T1 - Literature names for pediatric medical conditions
AU - Bilavsky, Efraim
AU - Yarden-Bilavsky, Havatzelet
AU - Ashkenazi, Shai
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - From the Grimm Brothers to Charles Dickens, from Gulliver's Travels to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, great writers and stories have been a source for names of paediatric medical conditions, sometimes preceding the medical description by many years. This article describes the circumstances that led to the creation of some of these fascinating names, the physicians who coined them, and their link to the actual medical conditions. Conclusion: Literary names for medical conditions add warmth and humanity to the field of paediatrics.
AB - From the Grimm Brothers to Charles Dickens, from Gulliver's Travels to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, great writers and stories have been a source for names of paediatric medical conditions, sometimes preceding the medical description by many years. This article describes the circumstances that led to the creation of some of these fascinating names, the physicians who coined them, and their link to the actual medical conditions. Conclusion: Literary names for medical conditions add warmth and humanity to the field of paediatrics.
KW - Children
KW - Literature
KW - Medical eponyms
KW - Syndromes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34250659601&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00347.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00347.x
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C2 - 17524015
AN - SCOPUS:34250659601
SN - 0803-5253
VL - 96
SP - 975
EP - 978
JO - Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
JF - Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
IS - 7
ER -