title: Literature names for pediatric medical conditions.
abstract: From the Grimm Brothers to Charles Dickens, from Gulliver's Travels to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, great writers and stories have been a source for names of paediatric medical conditions, sometimes preceding the medical description by many years. This article describes the circumstances that led to the creation of some of these fascinating names, the physicians who coined them, and their link to the actual medical conditions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Literary names for medical conditions add warmth and humanity to the field of paediatrics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics C, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel. yoji@netvision.net.il
authors.forename: Efraim
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bilavsky
authors.forename: Havatzelet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yarden-Bilavsky
authors.forename: Shai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ashkenazi
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004850:Eponyms; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010372:Pediatrics; D013577:Syndrome