Machado-Joseph disease was first described in 1972 among the descendants of Portuguese-Azorean immigrants to the United States, including the family of William Machado
It is named for an American neurologist, Samuel A. K. Wilson, who first described it in 1912.
He is the first person that described the Huntington disease.
George Huntington who was a young physician, first described the disease in 1872.
The disease was first described in the 5th century BC by Hippocrates.
Caused by the GSS prion, this disease was first described in 1928.
It was first described in 1977 and the microbe was identified in 1982.
The disease was first described in the 5th century BC by Hippocrates.
The Norwegian neurologist , Sigvald Refsum first described the disorder in 1946.
The condition was first described by Frederick Lewy in 1941 when he described Lewy bodies, which are abnormal inclusions in the cytoplasm (components of a cell outside the nucleus) of cells found in patients who had Parkinson's disease
Menkes disease was first described by the pediatrician John Menkes in 1962. He noticed a distinct set of symptoms in a group of patients, which later led to the identification of the genetic disorder now known as Menkes disease.
Gaucher disease is the most common lysosomal storage disease. It was named for the French physician Phillipe Gaucher who first described it in 1882. The disease is caused by a lack of glucocerebrosidase, which causes a buildup of glucocerebroside in the tissues.
David Gruby was a Hungarian physician who, in 1843, he described a fungus (Microsporum audouini) that causes a type of ringworm, and the disease is sometimes referred to as "Gruby's disease".