George Budd
George Budd M.D. (23 February 1808 – 14 March 1882) was an English physician, medical writer and academic.
Life
He was born at
Budd pursued medical studies in Paris and at the Middlesex Hospital, London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1836. In 1837, while still a M.B., he was appointed physician to the Dreadnought seamen's hospital ship at Greenwich. Here with George Busk he researched cholera, scurvy, and the pathology of the stomach and liver. In 1840 he graduated M.D. at Cambridge and was elected professor of medicine at King's College London, and in 1841 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, being censor 1845–7.[1]
In 1863 Budd retired from his medical professorship in King's College, of which he was then made an honorary fellow, and in 1867, in poor health, he gave up his large practice in London, and retired to Barnstaple. In 1880 he was made an honorary fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, having ceased to be a fellow many years before, on his marriage. He died 14 March 1882, aged 74.[1]
Works
Budd first came to notice by writing on the
Budd published papers and lectures in medical journals, especially the Medical Gazette, including his
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Budd, George (BT827G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 978-3-642-04519-6.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Budd, George (1808-1882)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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