Thomas Hodgkin ( August 17, 1798 , Pentonville , St. James County , Middlesex , England - April 5, 1866 , Jaffa , Ottoman Syria ) - British physician , pathologist , pioneer in preventive medicine. Currently known primarily for the fact that in 1832 he described the form of lymphoma, now known as Hodgkin's lymphoma (lymphogranulomatosis) .
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| Date of Birth | August 17, 1798 |
| Place of Birth | Pentonville , St James County , Middlesex , England |
| Date of death | April 5, 1866 (67 years old) |
| Place of death | Jaffa , Ottoman Syria |
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| Scientific field | pathological anatomy |
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Biography
Thomas Hodgkin was born into a Quaker family in Pentonville, St. James County, Middlesex. Together with his brother John Hodgkin received a private education.
In 1816 he took up the position of personal secretary of William Allen , an English scholar and philanthropist. Then he studied at St. Thomas Medical School in London , and in 1819 he entered the University of Edinburgh , in which, after defending a dissertation in 1823, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In 1821 he traveled to France, studied the work of a stethoscope , recently introduced into medicine by Rene Laennecom . In 1825, he was appointed professor of the anatomy of disease at the London Medical School.
In 1832, Thomas Hodgkin described several patients who had an increase in lymph nodes and spleen, general exhaustion and loss of strength. In all cases, the disease was fatal. After 23 years, Samuel Wilkes ( Samuel Wilkes ) (1824-1911), a British doctor and biographer, called this condition Hodgkin's disease, having studied the cases described by Hodgkin and adding 11 personal observations to them.
Thomas Hodgkin was a close friend of Sir Moses Montefiore , one of the most famous British Jews of the 19th century, a financier, public figure and philanthropist. Since 1857, he traveled with him to Palestine, in one of which he became ill with dysentery and died. Thomas Hodgkin was buried in Jaffa .
Memory
At Bedfort Square , London , there is a memorial plate dedicated to Thomas Hodgkin. A number of medical facilities are named after Thomas Hodgkin. In Jaffa , now located in Israel , the grave of Thomas Hodgkin has been preserved.