Thomas (1) Hodgkin
| Thomas (1) Hodgkin MD, FRGS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1798 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1866 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
9 Lower Brook Street [1838] 35 Bedford Sq | ||||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
APS Council 1838 member
APS Council 1839 member
APS Council 1840 member
APS Council 1847 member and Secretary
ESL Council 1843-44 Member, Trustee
ESL Council 1844-45 Member
ESL Council 1845-46 Member
ESL Council 1846-47 Member
ESL Council 1847-48 Member
ESL Council 1848-49 Member
ESL Council 1849-50 Member
ESL Council 1850-51 Vice President
ESL Council 1851-52 Vice President
ESL Council 1852-53 Vice President
ESL Council 1853-54 Member
ESL Council 1854-55 Member
ESL Council 1855-56 Vice President [replaces Greenough deceased]
ESL Council 1856-57 Vice President
ESL Council 1857-58 Member
ESL Council 1858-59 Member
ESL Council 1859-60 Member
ESL Council 1860-61 Member
ESL Council 1861-62 Member
ESL Council 1862-63 Member
ESL Council 1863-64 Member
ESL Council 1864-65 Member
ESL Council 1865-66 Member [dies Apr. 1866]
House Notes
Founder member ESL.
1844.01.02 The Secretary reported that the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, Samuel Duckworth Esq. and Thos. Hodgkin, MD, had consented to become the Trustees of the Society
1844.04.09 Publication Committee: Thomas Hodgkin, MD, George Ramsay Esq., J.A. St John Esq., W. Holt Yates, MD, Hon. Mr Elphinstone, Walter K. Kelly Esq., William Aldam, MP, Richard King, MD
1844.04.09 Library Committee: George Ramsay Esq., Bayle St John Esq., Thomas May Esq., Joseph Charles King Esq., Thomas Hodgkin, MD, Walter K. Kelly Esq., J.A. St John Esq., Richard King, MD
1844.04.09 House Committee: Sir James Clark Bart., Thomas May Esq., Thomas Hodgkin, MD, Richard King, MD
1849.04.19 resolved that a Committee be appointed to consider the present condition and future prospects of the Society and that the following gentlemen be elected members of that Committee: Sir Charles Malcolm, William Spence Esq., G.B. Greenough Esq., Joseph Fletcher Esq., Thomas Hodgkin MD, Thomas May Esq., William Ogilby Esq., Dr Latham, and that these form a quorum
1849.06.14 The following members were recommended to the Anniversary Meeting as the new members of the Council: 1. P. Kingsford Esq., 2. Thomas Hodgkin MD. Dunn Esq.
1850.03.22 'That a committee consisting of Mr Dunn, Mr Greenough, Dr R.G. Latham, Thomas Hodgkin MD, Mr Nash and Sir C. Malcolm, with power to add to the number, be appointed for the purpose of considering the means of improving the prospects of the Society’
number after name to distinguish from another with same name
Trustee Jun 1850; Committee to draw up an address to the Society Jun 1850; Sub-Committee on printing Jun 1850; Committee to revise Rules and Regulations Sep 1850; delegate to BAAS at Ipswich 1851; sub-committee to consider papers 1852; sub-committee to enquire for accommodation Jul 1852; sub-committee to report on another volume 1853; sub-committee to examine Dr King's claim, Oct 1853; Finance Committee 1856; Committee to consider advancing the Society 1857; Committee for selection and publication of papers Feb 58; Committee for preparing the house list May 58; Publication committee Jul 58; Committee on changes in Council May 60; sub-committee to report on Mr Clarke's portraits Mar 62
Notes From Elsewhere
Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866) was an English physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was actively involved in the clinical process. He was a contemporary of Thomas Addison and Richard Bright at Guy's Hospital.
Died in Jaffa, studying the Arabs.
Publications
External Publications
Hodgkin published as a book his Lectures on Morbid Anatomy in 1836 and 1840. His major contribution to the teaching of pathology, however, was made in 1829, with his two volumed work entitled The Morbid Anatomy of Serous and Mucous Membranes, which became a classic in modern pathology.
Hodgkin was one of the earliest defenders of preventive medicine, having published On the Means of Promoting and Preserving Health in book form in 1841. Among other early observations were the first description of acute appendicitis, of the biconcave format of red blood cells and the striation of muscle fibers.
Hodgkin also translated with Thomas Fisher, from the French of William-Frédéric Edwards, On the Influence of Physical Agents on Life (London, 1832; Philadelphia 1838).[41][42] Edwards was a vitalist in physiology, who studied the effect of physical forces on processes in living organisms.[43] The work as it appeared in English was much more than a translation, since it contained an appendix of over 200 pages containing two dozen papers, a compendium of medicine and science tangentially related to themes in Edwards, but related to his general approach. It included early work by Hodgkin and collaboration with Lister, as well as something on electricity and meteorology.[44] He also published The Means of Promoting and Preserving Health (London, 1840), of which a second edition appeared in 1841, and an Address on Medical Reform (1847).
House Publications
The progress of ethnology
On the Guanches. Printed Jun 1845
On the ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Read 21 May 1845
Obituary notice of Dr Prichard. Read 28 Feb. 1849. Printed
communicates On an Indian tribe in the NW of America by the late Manuel Cardenas. 8 Dec 1852
On some Darien Indians by Manuel Cardenas. Read by Hodgkin 12 Jan 1853
On the Bedouins
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
Wellcome Library: papers
(see also A51/12/7 .1 Miss M.M. Scaife to FS, 30 Oct. 1944 - sends reprint of Dr James Hunt’s 1865 address from her step-grandfather, Dr Thomas Hodgkin’s papers which she is destroying (autogr.)
.2 FS to Miss Scaife, 2 Nov. - very pleased to receive reprint; would welcome any other relevant papers from Dr Hodgkin’s estate (tpc.); no manuscripts by Dr Hodgkin were received