Abstract
Eponyms have done much to perpetuate the fame and fortune of physicians. In the case of Henry Bence Jones 1 , the application of his name to the unique protein appearing in the urine of patients with multiple myeloma persists in the vocabulary of modern medicine but largely obscures the reality of the man and his contributions. In fact, other than contributing a single publication on the subject [15] in which he erroneously concluded that the protein was an oxide of albumin, Jones displayed no particular interest in the disease. Rather, he was a physician and chemist with perhaps the widest ranging knowledge of chemical pathology in England during the mid-nineteenth century and counted such eminent persons as T.H. Huxley, Charles Darwin, Hermann von Helmholtz and Michael Faraday amongst his friends and patients [57].
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