Clifford Allbutt
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Fields | medicine |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (20 July 1836 – 22 February 1925) was an English
Thomas Clifford Allbutt was born in
After studying medicine at
After serving as one of the Commissioners for Lunacy in England and Wales from 1889,
Family
Allbutt was married to Susan, daughter of Thomas England, merchant, of Headingley, Leeds, on 15 September 1869. They had no children.[citation needed]
Leeds, London, Cambridge
From 1861 to 1889 Allbutt was a successful consulting physician in Leeds, when he commissioned Edward Schroeder Prior to design Carr Manor for his residence.
Allbutt was Physician at the General Infirmary at Leeds where he introduced the
Allbutt's residence whilst in Leeds was Virginia Cottage, Virginia Road. This is now part of Lyddon Hall, one of the university's halls of residence, where there is a blue plaque commemorating him.[4]
In 1870 Allbutt published Medical Thermometry, an article outlining the history of thermometry and describing his invention: a clinical thermometer approximately 6 inches in length that a physician could have habitually in a pocket. His version of the thermometer, devised in 1867, was quickly adopted elsewhere, instead of the model previously in use, which was one foot long and which patients were required to hold for about twenty minutes.[3]
Allbutt conducted some of his work at the nearby
His other work included initiating and encouraging the practice of consultation between medical witnesses before the hearing of legal cases. In 1884 he gave the
The novelist George Eliot described Allbutt as a 'good, clever and graceful man, enough to enable one to be cheerful under the horrible smoke of ugly Leeds'. He is regarded generally as the model for George Eliot's Dr Lydgate in Middlemarch. Allbutt has been commemorated with a Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque. It was unveiled on his former home, now Lyddon Hall, on the Leeds University campus.[7]
From 1889 to 1892 he was a Commissioner for Lunacy in England and Wales, and he moved from Leeds to London. In 1892 he moved to Cambridge on becoming Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge, where he edited his System of Medicine, a work which a biographer has described as 'his greatest service to contemporary medicine'. It was published in eight volumes, 1896 to 1899, with a second edition in eleven volumes, 1905 to 1911.[3] For many years this was regarded as the 'doctor's bible'.[7]
Allbutt was president of the
Allbutt continued as regius professor of physic at Cambridge until his death in 1925 when Sir Humphry Rolleston, Physician-in-Ordinary to King George V was elected as his successor.[3]
History of medicine
In the article
Allbutt's article had revised the version in the 10th edition (1902) contributed by Joseph Frank Payne,[10] and Allbutt's was in turn revised and updated in two parts for the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (volume 15), one part Medicine, General, by Rolleston, the other part Medicine, History of, by Charles Singer, Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of London.
Allbutt supported
References
- ^ a b c d Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. pp. 112–113. .
- ^ "Allbutt, Thomas Clifford (ALBT855TC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30382. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Blue Plaque Places
- ^ Allbutt, Thomas Clifford (1871) On the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the nervous system and of the kidneys. MacMillan.
- ^ Asylum Science, psychiatry, pathology, and the laboratory – from the nineteenth century to the present day: The Ophthalmoscope: Viewing The Living Brain[1] Archived 1 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Sir Clifford Allbutt Archived 13 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Leeds School of Medicine (27 September 2013). Retrieved on 8 June 2014.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: ChapterA" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ^ Allbutt, Thomas Clifford (1911). Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–64.;
. InThomas Clifford Allbutt (1836–1925), K.C.B., M.A., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge. Physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Editor of Systems of Medicine, designated in EB1911 by the initials 'T. C. A.'" (Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. xii.)
- ^ Joseph Frank Payne, articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition (1875) and 10th Edition (1902). [2]
- ISBN 978-1853154973.
Further reading
- Allbutt, T.C., "Medical Thermometry", British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol.45, No.90, (April 1870), pp.429–441; Vo.46, No.91, (July 1870), pp.144–156.
- Pearce JM (October 2003). "Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt". Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 74 (10): 1443. PMID 14570845.
- Keynes M, Butterfield J (May 1993). "Sir Clifford Allbutt: physician and Regius Professor 1892–1925". Journal of Medical Biography. 1 (2): 67–75. S2CID 37519991.
- Schneck JM (May 1970). "Tertius Lydgate in Middlemarch and Thomas Clifford Allbutt". New York State Journal of Medicine. 70 (9): 1086–90. PMID 4914393.
- Fulton JF (January 1957). "Medicine and the humanities: Linacre and Allbutt". Transactions of the American College of Cardiology. 7: 24–38. PMID 13409430.
- Chesney AM (July 1956). "Medicine in the 19th century: T. Clifford Allbutt; explanatory notes". Journal of Medical Education. 31 (7 Part 1): 460–8. PMID 13332384.
External links
- Quotations related to Clifford Allbutt at Wikiquote
- Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt at Encyclopædia Britannica
- Works by Clifford Allbutt at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Clifford Allbutt at Internet Archive