Autoeponym

An autoeponym is a medical condition named in the honor of the individual who described it or died from the disease Autoeponyms use the possessive or non-possessive form, with the preference to use the non-possessive form for diseases, structures, or procedures named for the physician who first described it (e.g. Alzheimer disease), and the possessive form in cases named for the first patient described (e.g. Lou Gehrig's disease). Therefore, both patients and doctors have been the subject of autoeponyms.
Examples
Some examples include:
* Huntington's disease: Dr George Huntington diagnosed himself and his father and grandfather with this autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease.
* Jones fracture: Dr Robert Jones described this break in his foot behind the fifth toe in 1902, broken while dancing.
* Prasnitz-Küstner test: In 1921, Prasnitz actually injected Küstner's blood into himself to show that the allergic reaction to fish had been transferred.
* Rickettsia: In 1906, Howard Ricketts discovered that the bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is carried by a tick. He injected himself with the pathogen and died in 1909 while investigating typhus (Rickettsia prowazakii) in Mexico City.
* : An autosomal dominant myotonia of voluntary muscles described by Julius Thomsen about himself and his family members.
* Carrion's disease: Peruvian medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión inoculated himself with Bartonella bacilliformis in 1885 to prove the link to this disease, characterized by "oroya fever." He is now regarded as a national hero.
* : Dr Armand Trousseau described in the 1860s this clinical sign of hypercoaguable states showing as migratory thrombophlebitis. Late in life, Trousseau diagnosed himself before he died of gastric cancer.
* Pirogov embalming technique: Nikolay Pirogov himself was preserved by methods he developed and his body is still on display in a room temperature glass-lid coffin in the Ukraine.

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