Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Oliver St. John Gogarty

  • Doctors like eponymity

    Denis GillDublin, Ireland I must confess to liking medical eponyms. As a medical student in 1960s Dublin, we were taught the names of famous Irish physicians of the Georgian period (1780–1840), a time when Dublin was famed for its bedside teaching. Their names evoked an interest in the history of medicine and in clinical signs.…