Frederick Batten
Frederick Eustace Batten (29 September 1865 โ 27 July 1918) was an English
pediatrician
who has been referred to as the "father of pediatric neurology".
Biography
Frederick Batten was born on 29 September 1865 in Plymouth.St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London. He worked as a pathologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and as a physician at the National Hospital. He obtained his doctorate in 1895, became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1901, and was elected dean in 1908. Batten disease was named after him after he first described it in 1903.
Batten died from infection after a routine prostatectomy.[3]
Eponym
Further reading
- E. Chaves-Carballo (1979). "Eponym: Frederick E. Batten: father of pediatric neurology". Southern Medical Journal. 71 (11): 1428โ1429. PMID 362542.
References
- ^ "Frederick Eustace Batten". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ "Batten, Frederick Eustace (BTN884FE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 978-0-19-959001-8.
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