- A dictionary of medical eponyms

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Born  
Died  

Related eponyms

A character from Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night.

Biography of Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Sir Andrew Aguecheek is known for his desire to please albeit frustrated by his intellectual limitations. He consumed large quantities of beef and was suspected of suffering from liver disease.

Shakespeare's main plot is that of a shipwrecked girl (Viola) who, disguised as a boy (Cesario), serves a young Duke (Orsino) and undertakes love-errands on his behalf to a noble lady (Olivia) who falls in love with her but mistakenly marries her twin brother (Sebastian).

Shakespeare complicates the plot by giving Olivia a reprobate uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and two additional suitors, the asinine Sir Andrew Aguecheek and her steward, Malvolio, tricked by members of her household into believing that she loves him. More important to the play than to the plot is the Shakespearean clown, Feste, a wry and oblique commentator whose wit in folly is opposed to Malvolio's folly in wit.

"Had I but followed the Arts"

What is an eponym?

An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.

What is Whonamedit?

Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

Disclaimer:

Whonamedit? does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.