William Heberden

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William Heberden

William Heberden Sr. (* 1710 in London ; † May 17, 1801 ibid) was an English medic.

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Heberden studied medicine in London and from 1724 at St John's College in Cambridge , where he received his master's degree in 1732 and his doctorate in 1739. He then worked in Cambridge for almost ten years as a general practitioner and taught materia medica before moving to London in 1746, where he was accepted into the Royal College of Physisicians and practiced as a doctor from 1748. In 1749 he was elected a member of the Royal Society .

He made the first descriptions of chickenpox , the symptoms of angina pectoris and the typical nodules on the end joints of the fingers that are formed in a certain form of osteoarthritis.

Heberden married twice, first in 1752 Elizabeth Martin, with whom he had a son, Thomas, who later became the canon of Exeter. After the death of his first wife in 1754, he married Mary Wollaston, a daughter of Francis Wollaston , and had eight more children with her, but only two of them survived: William , who succeeded his father as a medic, and Mary.

Fonts

  • Αντιθηεριακα [antitheriacs]. An essay on Mithridatium and Theriaca. London 1745 (= Hanoverian tracts , Volume 2, Volume 2, No. 7).
  • A collection of the yearly bills of mortality, from 1657 to 1758 inclusive. Together with several other bills of an earlier date. London 1759.
  • On the chickenpox. In: Med. Transact. Coll. Phys. London 1768, pp. 427-436.
  • Commentaries on the history and cure of diseases. 1802.

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personal data
SURNAME Heberden, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heberden, William senior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1801
Place of death London