1. Thomas Hodgkin RMS was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine.
39 Facts About Thomas Hodgkin
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Thomas Hodgkin is best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832.
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Thomas Hodgkin was a contemporary of Thomas Addison and Richard Bright at Guy's Hospital in London.
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Thomas Hodgkin was born to a Quaker family in Pentonville, St James Parish, Middlesex, the son of John Hodgkin.
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Thomas Hodgkin received private education with his brother John Hodgkin, and in 1816 took a position as private secretary to William Allen.
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Thomas Hodgkin's aim was to learn the trade of apothecary, one of the routes into medicine, and Allen, despite prominence in that business, did not make it possible.
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Thomas Hodgkin inherited property from his great-uncle of the same name, meaning that from age 21 he had a degree of financial independence.
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In September 1819 Hodgkin was admitted to St Thomas' and Guy's Medical School.
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Thomas Hodgkin "walked the wards" for a year on the rounds of physicians and surgeons, and attended lectures, in particular those by Astley Cooper.
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Thomas Hodgkin then studied at the University of Edinburgh, where the lecturers who impressed him included Andrew Duncan, the younger, and Robert Jameson in natural history.
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Thomas Hodgkin's first published paper, on the spleen, came from Duncan's course, and drew on the veterinary writings of his friend Bracy Clark.
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In 1821, Thomas Hodgkin went to France, where he learned to work with the stethoscope, a recent invention of Rene Laennec.
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Thomas Hodgkin took account of the exacting statistical and clinical approach of Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis.
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Thomas Hodgkin associated there with British expatriates including Robert Knox and Helen Maria Williams.
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In Paris Thomas Hodgkin met Benjamin Thorpe, a banker for Rothschild's at the time, who was suffering from tuberculosis.
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Thomas Hodgkin became his physician for a while, and Thorpe was cured.
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Once graduated at Edinburgh, Thomas Hodgkin joined the couple for travel in Italy.
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The Edwards brothers, William-Frederic Edwards and Henri Milne Edwards, were both physiologists with distinctive theories, and Thomas Hodgkin looked over their work in the next few years.
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Achille-Louis Foville was a neurologist, around whom Thomas Hodgkin tried unsuccessfully, from 1838, to set up a southern version of the York Retreat.
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Thomas Hodgkin found a position at Guy's, first as a volunteer clerk in 1825, and then in 1826 as the curator of the museum there, carrying out autopsies.
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Thomas Hodgkin built up his reputation on the work his posts brought him in morbid anatomy.
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Thomas Hodgkin's friends pushed the issue to an acrimonious vote of the governors, which was in fact hopeless.
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Thomas Hodgkin was brought in, and found new lecturers in Marshall Hall and George Gregory; he lectured himself, and with Charles Barker the four embarked on a lecture series.
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Thomas Hodgkin drew on his experience at Guy's to improve the museum and start a Clinical Society for reporting of cases.
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Thomas Hodgkin married in 1850 Sarah Frances Scaife, a widow; they had no children.
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When Lady Montefiore died in 1862, Thomas Hodgkin promised her to travel with her husband on future journeys.
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Thomas Hodgkin stood aside from the Anti-Slavery Society of the 1820s and 1830s, however; the society took a different line on emancipation and colonization in Africa.
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Thomas Hodgkin had an interest in both the physical anthropology and the cultural aspects of what would now be ethnology, before the academic disciplines existed.
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Thomas Hodgkin was a supporter of Liberia in the early days of its foundation; and he compared it favourably to Sierra Leone.
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The Narrative contained a piece Thomas Hodgkin had written on the indifference of the company to the indigenous peoples of western Canada.
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Thomas Hodgkin then took up the behaviour of the company with Benjamin Harrison, Treasurer of Guy's, disastrously mixing his professional life with his activism: Harrison was concerned in the management of the company as deputy chairman, and was related by marriage to John Henry Pelly, the chairman, who had crossed swords with King at parliamentary hearings.
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Thomas Hodgkin collaborated with Joseph Jackson Lister, who in 1830 enunciated design principles for the achromatic microscope.
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Thomas Hodgkin described the disease that bears his name in 1832, in a paper titled On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen.
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Thomas Hodgkin received 33 years later the eponym through the recognition of British physician Samuel Wilks, who rediscovered the disease.
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Thomas Hodgkin published as a book his Lectures on Morbid Anatomy in 1836 and 1840.
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Thomas Hodgkin was one of the earliest defenders of preventive medicine, having published On the Means of Promoting and Preserving Health in book form in 1841.
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Thomas Hodgkin published The Means of Promoting and Preserving Health, of which a second edition appeared in 1841, and an Address on Medical Reform.
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Thomas Hodgkin wrote abolitionist pamphlets and on the British African Colonization Societies.
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The King's College London School of Medicine's Thomas Hodgkin Building is named in honour of Thomas Hodgkin.