These terms are not really of neurological origin, but as I scribble this at the New Year, this rather British diversion may serve to amuse. In essence, these terms describe a profession or work reflected by the person's surname. No less an authority than C. Jung wondered: 'Are these whimsicalities of chance, or ... are they "meaningful coincidence's"?. In October 1994, Jen Hunt wrote an article in The Psychologist called 'The Psychology of Reference Hunting'. It was remarked that J.W. Splatt and D. Weedon wrote a paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urologyl The New Scientist magazine was swamped with examples of people whose names matched their jobs. Entertaining examples abound.
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