Henry Hugh Clutton
Henry Hugh Clutton ( July 12, 1850 ; † 1909 ) was an English surgeon .
Career and work
In 1872 Clutton went to St. Thomas Hospital as a student . Four years later he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . Clutton initially worked as a resident and later as a surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital . From 1887 to 1893 it worked as a surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Chelsea .
In 1886, Clutton published an article in The Lancet on the relationship between symmetrical synovitis and congenital syphilis , which he was the first to recognize. This clinical picture was later named after him as Clutton syndrome . The changes to the joints are here as Clutton joints ( Engl. Clutton's joint ), respectively.
Clutton's grave is in Brompton Cemetery in West Brompton , south west London .
Individual evidence
- ^ HH Clutton: Symmetrical Synovitis of the Knee in Hereditary Syphilis. In: The Lancet 1886, pp. 391-393. PMID 5669866 (re-print)
- ↑ W. Mohr: Joint pathology: Historical bases, causes and developments of. Verlag Springer, 2000, ISBN 3-540-65971-4 limited preview in the Google book search
literature
- WR BED: Henry Hugh Clutton (1850-1909), a centennial note. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Volume 44, Number 1, January 1951, pp. 71-72, PMID 14808232 , PMC 2081607 (free full text).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clutton, Henry Hugh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1850 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1909 |