著者

青木 仕

出版者

特定非営利活動法人 日本医学図書館協会

雑誌

医学図書館 (ISSN:04452429)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.4, pp.219-227, 1988

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Eponymy is the practice of affixing a scientist's name to his or her discovery or invention.<br>Five hundred fifty-nine eponyms were analyzed from among three hundred ninety one cases selected from lists of syndromes which appeared in the Supplment of &ldquo;The Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine&rdquo; in 1977 and 1982 and 1987.<br>The following results were obtained:<br>1) Eponyms were the most frequent (85) in the 1950's. The frequency of eponyms increased markedly from 11 in the 1870's to the 1950's but has been decreasing since then.<br>2) Eponyms were the most frequent-179 (32%)-in the U. S. A.<br>3) From the basis of the numbers of eponyms, the center of world medical science seems to have moved from England to France, Germany, and the U. S. A. in the 20th century.<br>4) In Japan 2 eponyms appeared for the first time between 1901 and 1920.