William Tilbury Fox

William Tilbury Fox

William Tilbury Fox (* 1836 in Broughton , Hampshire , † June 7, 1879 in Paris ) was an English dermatologist.

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From 1853 Fox attended the medical school of the University College Hospital in London. In 1858 he received the title "Doctor of Medicine" (MD). His first job was that of a " interns (" house physician ")" in the University College Hospital on by William Jenner led station for skin diseases. He then worked in a maternity hospital in the London borough of Lambeth , as a general practitioner and as an obstetrician (physician-accoucheur) in the General Dispensary in Farringdon . In 1863 he decided to specialize in dermatology and associated himself with his brother Thomas Fox in a practice. In 1867 he took over the position of chief physician in the skin department of the University College Hospital in London.

Works

• Skin diseases of parasitic origin, their nature and treatment; including the description and relations of the fungi found in man. Hardwicke, London 1863 (digitized version)
• Skin diseases; their description, pathology, diagnosis and treatment, with a copious formulary. Hardwicke, London 1864 (digitized version) 2nd edition 1869 (digitized version) 3rd edition 1873 (digitized version)
  • First american from last London edition Wood, NY 1871 (digitized)
• Skin diseases of parasitic origin: their nature and treatment, including the description and relations of the fungi found in man. Hardwicke, London 1866 (digitized version)
• Eczema, its nature and treatment: and incidentally, the influence of constitutional conditions on skin diseases being the Lettsomian lectures for the session 1869-70 delivered before the Medical Society of London. H. Renshaw, London 1870 (digitized version)
• Scheme for obtaining a better knowledge of the endemic skin diseases of India. London 1872 (digitized version)
• On ringworm and its management. Henry Renshaw, London 1873 (digitized version)
• Together with T. Farquhar. On certain endemic skin and other diseases of India and hot climates generally / by Tilbury Fox and T. Farquhar including notes ... by H. Vandyke Carter J. & A. Churchill, London 1876 (digitized version)
• Together with Thomas Colcott. Epitome of skin diseases: with formulas for students and practitioners. Henry Renshaw, London 1876 (digitized version)

literature

• Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume II. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1885, p. 418 (digitized version)