Aguecheek disease
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Overview
An eponym coined by WHJ Summerskill referring to Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a timorous minor character—a beef lover and drinker—in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night whose mental fluctuations Summerskill attributed to the dementia of hepatic encephalopathy.
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