One of the most curious objections to the medical usage of the modern and scientific-sounding term "Hansen's disease" is that "Dr. Hansen did not have the disease". But the fact that neither Dr. Parkinson nor Dr. Bright were victims of "their" diseases is conveniently ignored. As it is ignored that Dr. Recklinghausen never had skin tumors and that no malignant mammary "Paget's disease" ever dev...