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Thomas Hodgkin
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Thomas Hodgkin
Date, Country, and City of Birth
August 17, 1798, Pentonville, UK
Date, Country, and City of Death
April 4, 1866, Jaffa, Israel
History of Life
Thomas Hodgkin (Fig. 1) was born into a family devoted to the Society of Friends (“Quakers”) on August 17, 1798, in Pentonville, in the parish of Clerkenwell, then a suburb of the rapidly growing metropolis of London (Geller and Taylor 2013). George III was King of England at the time of Hodgkin’s birth and Victoria was Queen at his death.
Portrait of Thomas Hodgkin ascribed to the artist Phoebus Levin and hanging in the Gordon Museum, Guy’s Hospital, London (Permission from the Gordon Museum, King’s College, London)
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Dawson, P. J. (1968). The original illustrations of Hodgkin’s disease. Archives of Internal Medicine, 121, 288–290.
Geller, S. A., & Taylor, C. R. (2013). Thomas Hodgkin: The ‘man’ and ‘his disease’. Virchows Archiv 463, 353–365.
Fox, H. (1926). Remarks on the presentation of microscopical preparations made from some of the original tissue described by Thomas Hodgkin, 1832. Annals of Medical History, 8, 370–374.
Hodgkin, T. (1832). On some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 17, 68–114.
Hodgkin, T. (1823). Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de absorbendi functione. Pillans: Edinburgh.
Hodgkin, T. (1820). A catalogue of the preparations in the anatomical museum of Guy’s Hospital Arranged and edited, by desire of the Treasurer of the Hospital and of the Teachers of the Medical and Surgical School. London: R. Watts.
Hodgkin, T. (1828). On the object of post-mortem examinations. London Medical Gazette, 2, 423–431.
Hodgkin, T. (1866). Narrative of a journey to Morocco in 1863 and 1864. London: TC Newby.
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Wilks, S. (1865). Cases of enlargement of the lymphatic glands and spleen, (or Hodgkin’s disease), with remarks. Guy’s Hospital Reports, 11, 56–67.
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Geller, S.A., Taylor, C.R. (2017). Hodgkin, Thomas (1798–1866). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_547
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