Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin (born August 17, 1798 in Pentonville, London Borough of Islington , † April 4 or April 5, 1866 in Jaffa , then Palestine ) was a British doctor and pathological anatomist. He described lymphogranulomatosis in 1832.
Life
Thomas Hodgkin began after a 1817 exerted to 1819 working as a pharmacist's assistant in Brighton his medical training at the Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital belonging in London Medical School . As a Quaker , Hodgkin could not study in Anglican England. Therefore, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1820 to 1823 . For clinical training he went to René Laënnec at the Hôpital Necker in Paris for a year (1821–1822) . In his doctoral thesis from 1823, Hodgkin dealt with lymph nodes. After traveling to France and Italy from 1823 to 1825, he took up his position at Guy's Hospital in 1825 and gave lectures in "morbid anatomy" ( pathological anatomy ). With Thomas Addison and Richard Bright , he formed the hospital's triumvirate. With his deep religiosity, he felt obliged not only to the medical profession, but also to social and educational reforms. He was a major figure of his day in the context of the social and medical changes in 19th century England .
In January 1832 he published an article in the Royal Society entitled On the Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen . In it he describes various cases of a disease of the lymphatic system . Since then, this disease has been named Hodgkin's ( Hodgkin's lymphoma ).
In 1837 Hodgkin was a co-founder of the Aborigines' Protection Society , which was dedicated to protecting the rights of indigenous peoples in the British Empire.
Hodgkin died of dysentery while accompanying his benefactor Moses Montefiore on a trip to the Holy Land . According to the (probably cryptic) inscription on his tomb, nothing human was alien to him:
Laënnec thought a lot of Hodgkin: "He was number one among all the English doctors who studied with me."
literature
- Claus Bernet : Thomas Hodgkin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 662-673.
- Werner E. Gerabek : Hodgkin, Thomas. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 608.
- Ronald D. Barley : Thomas Hodgkin. The man who gave the lymphoma its name died 150 years ago . Chirurgische Allgemeine , 17th year, 4th issue (2016), pp. 221–223.
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Hodgkin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Hodgkin at whonamedit.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de absorbendi functione .
- ↑ Med Chir Trans 17, 1832, pp. 69-97.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hodgkin, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pentonville, London Borough of Islington |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1866 |
| Place of death | Jaffa |