lol is this true? That's such a slap in the face 😆
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Ottolymphoma, easy.
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I thought the recommendation nowadays is that diseases aren't possessive, so it's Down Syndrome and Hodgkin Lymphoma.
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"Otto vor dem Gentschenfelde" is one of those old German rural names, that just combines a name with a place. Like maybe a Farmer called Otto had his farm in front of the "Gentschen"-field. Maybe there were a bunch of other Ottos closeby so they had to distinguish.
And then it became a last name for his descendants. While googeling I found an obituary for a guy called Dieter Otto vor dem Gentschenfelde, where Dieter was his first name and Otto was part of his last name.
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