14 Facts About Jonathan Hutchinson

Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist, and pathologist, who notably advocated for circumcision.

Jonathan Hutchinson was born in Selby, Yorkshire, of Quaker parents and was educated in the local school.

Jonathan Hutchinson entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1850, and rapidly gained a reputation as a skilful operator and a scientific inquirer.

Jonathan Hutchinson was president of the Hunterian Society in 1869 and 1870, Editor of the British Medical Journal, professor of surgery and pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1877 to 1882, president of the Pathological Society, of the Ophthalmological Society, of the Neurological Society of the Medical Society, and of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society from 1894 to 1896.

Jonathan Hutchinson acted as honorary secretary to the Sydenham Society.

Jonathan Hutchinson was the first orator at the York Medical Society.

Jonathan Hutchinson is considered the father of oral medicine by some.

Jonathan Hutchinson published more than 1,200 medical articles and produced the quarterly Archives of Surgery from 1890 to 1900, being its only contributor.

Jonathan Hutchinson was the first to describe his triad of medical signs for congenital syphilis: notched incisor teeth, labyrinthine deafness, and interstitial keratitis, which was very useful for providing a firm diagnosis long before Treponema pallidum or the Wassermann test were discovered.

Jonathan Hutchinson was the founder of the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic; and both in his native town of Selby and at Haslemere, Surrey, he started educational museums for popular instruction in natural history.

Jonathan Hutchinson published several volumes on his subjects and was given an Hon.

Jonathan Hutchinson has his name attached to these entities in medicine:.

Jonathan Hutchinson married Jane Pynsent West in 1856 and they had six sons and four daughters.

The teacher, writer, and naturalist Margaret Jonathan Hutchinson was his granddaughter.