1. Thomas Addison was an English physician and medical researcher.
26 Facts About Thomas Addison
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Thomas Addison is traditionally regarded as one of the "great men" of Guy's Hospital in London.
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Thomas Addison began his career at Guy's Hospital in 1817, eventually becoming a full physician in 1837.
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Thomas Addison was a noted and respected lecturer and diagnostician.
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Thomas Addison experienced episodes of mental depression throughout his life, culminating in his suicide in 1860.
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Joseph Thomas Addison had married Sarah Shaw, and gone into the Shaw family business.
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Thomas Addison attended the Long Benton parish school, run by the parish clerk, Thomas Rutter.
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Thomas Addison entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1812 as a medical student, turning down an offer from his father to make him a paying resident student of John Thomson.
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Thomas Addison became a member of the Royal Medical Society.
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Thomas Addison's thesis was on Dissertatio medica inauguralis quaedam de syphilide et hydrargyro complectens.
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Thomas Addison enrolled as a physician pupil at Guy's Hospital in London, in 1817.
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Thomas Addison took a position as physician to the Universal Dispensary founded by John Bunnell Davis.
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Thomas Addison obtained his licentiate from the Royal College of Physicians in 1819, where in 1838 he was elected a Fellow.
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Thomas Addison was promoted to assistant physician, with the support of Benjamin Harrison, in January 1824 and in 1827 he was appointed lecturer of materia medica.
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Thomas Addison was there for eight years and developed a special interest in skin diseases, and a reputation in the area.
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Thomas Addison bought a house in Hatton Garden in 1819, and from that time had a private practice.
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In 1837, Thomas Addison became joint lecturer with Richard Bright on practical medicine, and a full physician at Guy's Hospital.
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When Bright retired from the lectureship in 1840, Thomas Addison became sole lecturer.
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Thomas Addison had a reputation at Guy's, where he concentrated on his students and patients, but was little known outside the hospital, and had few private patients.
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Thomas Addison suffered from episodes of clinical depression at the end of his life.
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Thomas Addison was buried in the churchyard of Lanercost Priory in Cumberland.
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Thomas Addison described this condition in his 1855 publication: On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Suprarenal Capsules.
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Pernicious anemia as described in 1849 by Thomas Addison is known as Thomas Addison-Biermer disease.
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In 1829, Thomas Addison published a study of the actions of poisons.
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Thomas Addison gave one of the first adequate accounts of appendicitis, in 1839.
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In 1847 Thomas Addison married at Lanercost Priory Elizabeth Catherine Hauxwell, a widow, with two children from her first marriage.