Hi Everett -- on Jun 29 2003 at 20:03, you wrote:

EH> I always heard this named as "Down's Syndrome" until just recently.
EH> Do you have any comments about correctness?

Apparently either is correct -- the condition is named after Dr John
Langdon Down, but not named BY him.

According to this article from http://www.ds-health.com/name.htm:


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In 1974, a conference at the US National Institute of Health attempted to
make a standard set of rules regarding the naming of diseases and
conditions. This report, printed in the journal Lancet, stated: "The
possessive form of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author
neither had nor owned the disorder." Since that time, the name has
traditionally been called "Down syndrome" in North America (note
that "syndrome" isn't capitalized). However, the change has taken
longer to occur in Great Britain and other parts of Europe, for reasons
that aren't quite clear to me.


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Cheers... Dallas

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