Thomas Lauder Brunton

Thomas Lauder Brunton (1881)

Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, Bt. (Painting by Harry Hermann Salomon )

Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet , FRS , FRCP (born March 14, 1844 in Roxburgh , Roxburghshire , Scotland , † September 16, 1916 in London ) was a British physician , pharmacologist and physiologist , who in particular was introduced in 1867 by the introduction of amyl nitrite became known in angina pectoris therapy. He has also written numerous non-fiction books on various medical-therapeutic topics, but also biographical works on medical professionals. In 1908 he was promoted to baronet .

Life

Thomas Lauder Brunton, the youngest child of James Brunton and his second wife Agnes Stenhouse, graduated from school to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh , which he completed in 1866 with a Bachelor of Medicine (MB). His thesis on the use of digitalis was awarded the university's gold medal. He completed another course there in 1867 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). By researching the work of Antoine-Jérôme Balard , Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-1896) and Arthur Graham Gamgee (1841-1893) and the knowledge gained from it, he became known in 1867 through the introduction of amyl nitrite in angina pectoris therapy. In 1868 he earned a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and in 1870 a Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) at the University of Edinburgh.

In the following years he worked at the University of Leipzig at the chair of Professor Carl Ludwig , where he met other young doctors such as the British Henry Pickering Bowditch , Ray Lankester , the Italian Angelo Mosso and the German Hugo Kronecker .

Upon his return, Brunton worked as a consultant doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital , founded in 1123 , the oldest hospital in London and Great Britain. In 1876 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In 1889 the University of Aberdeen awarded him an honorary doctorate in law (Honorary LL.D.) and in 1898 his alma mater , the University of Edingburg, another honorary doctorate in law. On February 9, 1900 he was beaten to Knight Bachelor (Kt), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". He also became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1901 . In 1908 he was awarded an Honorary MD from the University of Dublin . On July 17, 1908, he was raised in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom to hereditary baronet , of Stratford Place in the Metropolitan Borough of St. Marylebone .

His marriage on September 20, 1879 to Louisa Jane Stopford, daughter of the clergyman of the Church of Ireland and Archdeacon of Meath Edward Stopford , had two daughters and two sons. After his death on September 16, 1916, he was buried in Highgate Cemetery , Camden . His eldest son James Stopford Lauder Brunton then inherited the title of 2nd baronet. His younger son Edward Henry Pollock Brunton served as a lieutenant and doctor in the Royal Medical Corps and died on October 8, 1915 at the Battle of Loos during the First World War .

The Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton Prize of the Geriatric Cardiology Research Foundation was named in his honor.

Publications

In addition to his research, Thomas Lauder Brunton also wrote numerous non-fiction books on various medical-therapeutic topics, but also biographical works on medical professionals such as John Scott Burdon-Sanderson and Joseph Fayrer . His works include:

On digitalis , 1868 ( online version )
On the action of nitrite of amyl on the circulation , 1871
Action of mercury on the liver , 1873 ( online version )
On the use of artificial respiration and transfusion as a means of preserving life , 1873 ( online version )
On the diuretic action of digitalis , 1874
Experimental investigation of the action of medicines , 1875 ( online version )
Tables of Materia Medica: A Companion to the Materia Medica Museum , 1877 ( online version )
The alcohol question , co-author James Paget , 1879 ( online version )
On the cause of the non-precipitation of oxide of copper in testing certain cases of diabetic urine , 1880
On the explanation of Stannius's experiment and on the action of strychnia on the heart , 1880
Pathology of dropsy , 1880
Pharmacology and therapeutics; or, Medicine past and present , 1880 ( online version )
The Bible and science , 1881 ( online version )
On the position of the motor centers in the brain in regard to the nutritive and social functions , 1882
Vivisection and the use of remedies , 1882
On the nature of inhibition, and the action of drugs upon it , 1883
Tables of materia medica , 1883 ( online version )
A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica , 1885 ( online version )
On poisons formed from food, and their relation to biliousness and diarrhea , 1885
On disorders of digestion, their consequences and treatment , 1886 ( online version )
A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica , 1887 ( online version )
The element of truth in popular beliefs , 1887
On the use of codeine to relieve pain in abdominal disease , 1888
Preventive treatment of hydrophobia and other diseases , 1888
Index of Diseases and Remedies , 1890 ( online version )
On some of the variations observed in the rabbit's liver under certain physiological and pathological circumstances , 1891 ( online version )
Twenty-five years of medical progress , 1891
An introduction to modern therapeutics , 1892 ( online version )
Remarks on the treatment of piles and allied affections, including pruritus ani , 1892
On the use of oxygen and strychnine in pneumonia , 1892
The action of drugs on the bladder and genital organs , 1893
Modern developments of Harvey's work , 1894 ( online version )
Report on some of the changes produced on liver cells by the action of some organic and inorganic compounds , 1894 ( online version )
On the physiological action of pyridine , 1894
On atheroma and some of its consequences, with their treatment , 1895
'Little things' , 1895
On the cause of the rise of blood-pressure produced by digitalis , 1896
Some difficulties of diagnosis in hepatic disease , 1896
A case of perforating typhoid ulcer treated by operation and suture, and resulting in recovery , 1897
Lectures on the action of medicines , 1897 ( online version )
On obesity , 1902
The undesired and unexpected actions of medicines , 1902
A National League for Physical Education , 1903
National physical training , 1903
On disorders of assimilation, digestion, etc , 1904
A clinical lecture on cancer of the pancreas , 1904
The problems of therapeutics , 1904
Address on a National League for Physical Education and Improvement , 1905
A presidential address on medical science forty years ago , 1905
God and ether , 1905
The late Sir John Burdon-Sanderson , 1905
The effect of tobacco in health and disease, on the heart and circulation , 1905
The influence of climate upon health and disease , 1905
Physiological action of tea as a beverage , 1906
Fleas as a national danger , 1907
On the use of calcium salts as cardiac tonics in pneumonia and heart disease , 1907
Sir Joseph Fayrer, 1824-1907 , 1907
Second International Congress on School Hygiene, London, August 5th-10th, 1907 , 1907
Therapeutics of the circulation , 1908 ( online version )
Training and work , 1909
Vascular troubles in later life , 1909
Address to the Section of Preventive Medicine , 1910
Anti-Typhoid vaccination , 1915
Alcohol , 1915
Professor Edward Parkes on a spirit ration , 1915

in German language

On Preventive Antidotes , 1884
Handbook of General Pharmacology and Therapy , 1893 ( online version )
Organ ferments and organotherapy , 1905

Web links

Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed December 2, 2018.
Entry in Open Library

Thomas Lauder Brunton in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

↑ The London Gazette : No. 27167, p. 1169 , February 20, 1900.
↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900–1949 on the homepage of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
↑ The London Gazette: No. 28158, p. 5133 , July 14, 1908.
↑ BARONETAGE (leighrayment.com)

personal data
SURNAME	Brunton, Thomas Lauder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet Brunton, of Stratford Place, St. Marylebone, London (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British doctor, pharmacologist and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 14, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Roxburgh , Roxburghshire , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1916
Place of death	London

[1] The London Gazette : No. 27167, p. 1169 , February 20, 1900.

[2] KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)

[3] Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900–1949 on the homepage of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

[4] The London Gazette: No. 28158, p. 5133 , July 14, 1908.

[5] BARONETAGE (leighrayment.com)