Thomas Barlow

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Sir Thomas Barlow, Bt.
Billboard on the birthplace of Thomas Barlow in Brandwood Fold, Edgworth.

Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet KCVO FRS FRCP (born November 4, 1845 in Edgworth , Lancashire , † January 12, 1945 in London ) was an English doctor .

Barlow observed symptoms similar to scurvy in children fed only boiled milk in 1894 . He and the German surgeon Julius Otto Ludwig Möller (1819–1887) described Möller-Barlow disease (rachitic infant basket cut) . This is an extremely rare disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, which leads to rickets-like bone deformations in babies and young children and is fatal without treatment.

Life

Barlow was the son of the wealthy cotton manufacturer James Barlow (1821-1887), he studied in Manchester and London. At University College London (UCL) he graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1873 and graduated in 1874 with a doctorate in medicine . He continued his practical training at the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Hospital . From 1895 to 1907 he was a professor at University College London, first for pediatrics and later for clinical medicine .

Until her death he was the personal physician of Queen Victoria , then also for Kings Edward VII and George V.

He had been married to Ada Helen Dalmahoy since 1880 and the couple had three sons and two daughters. On March 7, 1902, he was promoted to Baronet , of Wimpole Street in the Borough of Saint Marylebone in the County of London . In 1918 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

From his marriage to Ada Helen Dalmahoy in 1880, he had five children. His eldest son, James Alan Noel Barlow (1881–1968), inherited him as 2nd baronet when he died in 1945.

Literature and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Westphal , Theodor Wieland , Heinrich Huebschmann: life regulator. Of hormones, vitamins, ferments and other active ingredients. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1941 (= Frankfurter Bücher. Research and Life. Volume 1), p. 47.
  2. ↑ Peter Schauder, Günther Ollenschläger (ed.): Nutritional medicine. Prevention and therapy. Elsevier , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-437-22921-4 , p. 114.
  3. ^ The London Gazette : 27409, 1118 , February 21, 1902.
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baronet, of Wimpole Street
1902-1945 		Alan Barlow
personal data
SURNAME Barlow, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barlow, Sir Thomas, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Edgworth , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1945
Place of death London