Reiter's syndrome- ignorance or plagiarism

Reactive arthritus is the latest name accorded to an inflammatory, sero-negative joint disease, a reaction to various gastrointestinal diseases. Introduced by Hans Reiter in 1916 the syndrome was adopted in medical literature as 'Reiter's disease'. Reviewing the literature however, it shows that the syndrome was identified a century before by B. Brodie. Reiter's name was compromised by medical crimes committed by him during the Nazi regime for which he was later convicted in Nuremberg. In this article the author asks if this was plagiarism or ignorance? Irrespective Reiter's name ought to be removed both for probable plagiarism and for medical crimes and credit should be accorded to the person who first described the syndrome.