Meet the medical pioneers who had conditions named after them

Here Majella O’Sullivan takes a look at some of the most common conditions named after those who discovered them and the people whose names they bear.

This year marks the bicentenary of when a British doctor first described an illness we now recognise as Parkinson’s.

James Parkinson published his research back in 1817 in his ‘An Essay of the Shaking Palsy’ and his work was awarded by the honour of an eponym and the illness he described was given his name.