Charcot–Leyden crystals are microscopic crystals composed of eosinophil protein galectin-10 found in people who have allergic diseases such as asthma or parasitic infections such as parasitic pneumoni
Charcot–Leyden crystals and eosinophil granulocytes in allergic sinusitis.
Ernst Viktor von Leyden was a German internist from Danzig.
Charcot–Leyden crystals
…these crystals, doing so in 1851, after which they were described jointly by Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Philippe Robin in 1853, then in 1872 by Ernst Viktor von Leyden. Curschmann's Spirals…