Alzheimer , Addison and others used to be just names of people . Guy 's Hospital was apparently the place to work in the 19th century if you wanted to have a disease named after you . But they are now attached to the diseases that they identified or studied . Austrian Dr. Hans Asperger described autistic syndrome in 1956 . Crohn 's name refers to disease because it was listed first among 3 authors of disease .
Alzheimer , Addison and others used to be just names of people . But they are now attached to the diseases that they identified or studied . Austrian Dr. Hans Asperger described autistic syndrome in 1956 . Crohn 's name refers to disease because it was listed first among 3 authors of disease .