Howard Henry Tooth
Howard Henry Tooth
Early life and education
Dr. Tooth was born on 22 April 1856 to Frederick Tooth of
After his university education, Howard Henry Tooth studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, achieving his MD in 1885.[2]
Career
He became Physician at the
In 1894, he taught a post-graduate course on Cranial Nerves at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic.[4]
He was awarded
Military service
Tooth spent quite a period of time in the military, resulting in his being awarded the rank of
Over the period of World War I he spent time both in London and as a consulting physician to the troops in Malta and consultant to the British forces in Italy. His services during this time resulted in his name's being twice mentioned in dispatches.[2]
Civic participation
Tooth was a member of the Pathological Society of London. In 1894, he served as a council member to that society.
Personal life
Tooth's first marriage was to Mary Beatrice Price, by whom he had one daughter. With his second wife, Helen Katherine Chilver, he had two sons and one daughter.[5]
He died at home in
Publications
In 1889 he delivered the Goulstonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians on the subject of "Secondary Degeneration of the Spinal Cord".
References
- ^ "Tooth, Howard Henry (TT873HH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b The British Medical Journal May 23 1925
- S2CID 9721631.
- ^ The British Medical Journal May 12 1894
- ^ S2CID 9721631.
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