Here is a question that involves one of my favorite medical historical figures, Armand Trousseau, the discoverer of phlegmasia alba dolens, a "painful white edema" that indicated DVT in the presence of hypercoaguability of malignancy. He later made the diagnosis in himself, and was found to have gastric cancer. As a result, "Trousseau's Syndrome" is one of the truly possessive syndromes.
Anyway, your clinical director might not know that the term "aphasia" was actually first proposed by Trousseau, to take the place of "aphemia", which Paul Broca had proposed to describe lesional language disorders a few years earlier. There was actually a lot of debate on the issue, and very nearly a duel in Paris between Dejerine and Marie. In the end, Trousseau won out and the term was accepted. There is some misinformation out there that Freud coined the term. This is completely wrong.
One of my favorite quotes from him:
"Ne croyez pas trop à la parole du maître, ne restez pas des écoliers serviles; allez, voyez, comparez."
"Do not implicitly believe the assertions of your teacher; do not be merely a servile student; go, see, and compare."
