Eponyma v medicíně aneb po kom to slovo je – Bartůněk Petr (2023)

The book is an original contribution to the literature dedicated to the history of medicine. The author highlights the complexity of the paths of individual discoveries against the backdrop of their times through the private and professional fates of the protagonists. It is a research into exceptional personalities who, with extraordinary enthusiasm and humility, advanced human knowledge, often under very challenging formal and financial conditions. In the 18th and 19th centuries, practitioners, but especially clinicians and researchers in academic environments, had minimal technical or laboratory support, if any at all. ***** The text is structured into three parts. The most extensive part summarizes diseases that typically present as syndromes, including tumors, in the field of internal medicine. The second part focuses on similar conditions in other medical fields. The final part is dedicated to eponyms of personalities who left their mark in the form of descriptions of certain phenomena, associated symptoms, and characteristics of clinical conditions, including those who made their mark in the history of medicine as initiators of various forms of investigative procedures, techniques, medical aids, or instruments. ***** The publication is primarily intended for doctors and pharmacists, both in undergraduate and postgraduate studies, but it may also appeal to...