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The syndrome was described as early as 1870, but it attained its eponymic designation after Eagle categorized the syndrome into two distinct types--the classic type and the carotid artery type--in 1937.
Dodd discounts a number of obvious eponymic subjects (though he rightly disdains the term eponym as too earnest): no cities and countries named after famous people, for example (thus no Wellington, no Washington); and no objects named after fictional characters (sadly depriving us of Dodd on the trilby, from George du Maurier's novel).
It was at such a point in her earlier books that Gellhorn melodramatically had Liana, in the eponymic novel, commit suicide or Rita, in The Stricken Field, sneak into a safehouse to overhear the Gestapo torturing her dissident boyfriend.
 
 
 
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