Thomas Spencer Cobbold
Thomas Spencer Cobbold (born May 28, 1828 in Ipswich , † March 20, 1886 in London ) was a British medic , zoologist and parasitologist specializing in worms .
Life
Cobbold was the son of the clergyman and writer Richard Cobbold (1797-1877), author of the novel History of Margaret Catchpole, who was born in the London borough of Maida Hill . Cobbold went to the surgeon JG Crosse (Norfolk and Norchwich Hospital) in the apprenticeship and studied medicine in Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1851. He had won the gold medal of the university, was a student of the anatomist John Goodsir (1814-1867), briefly in Paris and then from 1851 curator at the Anatomical Museum in Edinburgh. From 1857 he was lecturer for botany at St. Mary's Hospital in London and for zoology and comparative anatomy at Middlesex Hospital (from 1861). He did research on parasitic worms and also practiced in this field as a consultant doctor in London. From 1868 to 1873 he was Swiney Lecturer in Geology at the British Museum (appointed by the influence of Roderick Murchison ) and then Professor of Botany at the Royal Veterinary College, which was later converted into a specially created Professorship in Helminthology .
His specialty were parasitic worms in humans and animals.
From 1864 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1879/80 he was president of the Quekett Microscopical Club .
Fonts
- Entozoa; an introduction to the study of Helminthology, with reference more particularly to the internal parasites of man, 1864.
- Entozoa , 1869 (Supplement to Entozoa from 1864).
- The Grouse Disease, 1873.
- The Internal Parasites of our Domesticated Animals, 1873.
- Parasites, 1879.
- Tapeworms, 1866; fourth edition, 1883.
- Worms, 1872.
- Human Parasites, 1882.
- Parasites of Meat and Prepared Flesh Food, 1884.
- Our Food-producing Ruminants and the Parasites which reside in them, Cantor Lectures, 1871.
- Catalog of the Specimens of Entozoa in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1866.
literature
- Werner Köhler : Cobbold, Thomas Spencer. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 266.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cobbold, Thomas Spencer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British zoologist and parasitologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ipswich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1886 |
| Place of death | London |