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The Annals of Internal Medicine , organ of the American College of Physicians, abandoned the possessive form totally in 1988, protesting that eponyms are inappropriate when a directly descriptive synonym is available.
The use of eponyms in medicine is steeply on the decline, but ordinary eponyms, linguistic experts say, are enjoying a growth spurt these days.
Which leads to the use of medical eponyms, proper names, usually of persons or places, to designate diseases; their signs and symptoms, alone or in combination; reflexes, and a host of other medical phenomena.
Of what relevance (to usage, notwithstanding the fact that the topic is interesting) is an entry on eponyms (“John Bull and John Hancock are not just any johns.”
Safire's syndrome would have been of little concern in the 18th century, before eponyms became fashionable, and, according to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, before the adjective possessive would modify case.