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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Camillo Golgi, Rudolf Virchow, George Whipple, Frederick Griffith, Georgios Papanikolaou, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Thomas Hodgkin, Charles Scott Sherrington, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Juan Rosai, Javier Arias Stella, Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Sharon Weiss, Nikolay Anichkov, Fritz Koberle, Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans, Niall O Glacain, Gerhard Domagk, Hans Chiari, Robin Warren, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, Maude Abbott, Hashimoto Hakaru, Ludwig Aschoff, Patrice Mangin, Christian Fenger, Naser Kamalian, Henrique da Rocha Lima, Moslem Bahadori, Johann Jakob Wepfer, Peter Ludvig Panum, Zenaida Darunday, Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt, Johan Hultin, Willem Vrolik, Hanns von Meyenburg, Sophie Spitz, Georges Dreyer, Vaclav Treitz, Edwin P. Jenevein, Sondur Sriniwasachar, Gustav Huguenin, Arvid Lindau, Johann Pompe, John Andelin, Moritz Roth, Morris Simmonds, Morten Ansgar Kveim, Wu Zhongbi. Excerpt: Thomas Hodgkin (August 17, 1798 - April 5, 1866) was a British 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. Tombstone of Thomas Hodgkin in Jaffa, IsraelThomas Hodgkin was born to a Quaker family in Pentonville, St. James Parish, Middlesex. He received private education and, in September 1819 he was admitted to St. Thomas's and Guy's Medical School, now part of King's College London. He also studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1821, he went to Italy and France, where he learned to work with the stethoscope, a recent invention of Rene ...
