Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905): return of the surgeon

A medical eponym honours a scientist’s accomplishment in discovering a disease, symptom, anatomical part, procedure or principle.1 Many of them are firmly embedded in our terminology, such as Hodgkin’s disease, Babinski’s sign, Meckel’s diverticulum or Billroth’s surgery, respectively. Eponyms can be very helpful for professional communication, because they evoke characteristic images in every medical student or doctor and are usually easier to...