1798-1866 · Physician and morbid anatomist at Guy's Hospital, London; author of the 1832 paper on enlargement of the absorbent glands and spleen
Thomas Hodgkin
Guy's Hospital, London
According to Stone's 2005 biography, Thomas Hodgkin was born into a Quaker family in Pentonville in 1798, was appointed in 1826 as the first lecturer in morbid anatomy and museum curator at the new Guy's Hospital Medical School, and resigned in 1837 after being rejected for a clinical post. His 1832 paper described patients with enlarged lymph nodes and spleen. Stone gives his death as 4 April 1866 in Palestine; one abstract (Geller 2013) gives 1865.
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Stone MJ. Thomas Hodgkin: medical immortal and uncompromising idealist. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2005;18(4):368-75.
Hodgkin. On some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen. Med Chir Trans. 1832;17:68-114.
Geller SA, Taylor CR. Thomas Hodgkin: the "man" and "his disease": humani nihil a se alienum putabit (nothing human was foreign to him). Virchows Arch. 2013;463(3):353-65.