I've been working on this database since I was a second year medical student (I am now a third year hematology and medical oncology fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA). I added eponyms found in Robbins, other sources, and overheard on the wards into an HP Palmtop given to us by the school.
Eventually, I stopped using the HP (it was too slow). I imported the data to my PC, and put it back on the Palm as a Doc and JFile database. (You can convert text and Excel files using utilities provided by the respective programs (please refer to my software links on another page).) I first uploaded the JFile database in February 2000.
In April 2002, Mathias Tschopp, author of MedCalc, created a standalone client program for reading the database pro bono, so now you can access the database without JFile or a Doc reader. These changes were implemented in version 1.5. Version 1.6 added the ability to filter within a category for eponyms concerned with signs and procedures, among others. Later updates have added additional eponyms.
This started out as 715 eponyms in February 2000 and is now over 1600!
Please e-mail me at yee@post.harvard.edu with your thoughts or comments or with new eponyms! I continue to update it on a semi-regular basis.
July 28, 2006