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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: 28. Chapters: English pathologists, Scottish pathologists, Thomas Hodgkin, John Raymond Hobbs, Cuthbert Dukes, James Paget, James Underwood, David Bruce, Bernard Spilsbury, Matthew Baillie, Joseph Adams, James Syme, Joseph Bell, Keith Mant, Sydney Smith, Robert Muir, Martin Israel, John Hughes Bennett, Keith Simpson, Gordon MacPherson, Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet, Royal College of Pathologists, John George Adami, James Bell Pettigrew, Kenneth Walton, Joseph Toynbee, William Boyd, Ernest Kennaway, James Walker Dawson, William Cramer, Michael Wells, William Boog Leishman, Julia Polak, John Ferriar, Frederick Walker Mott, Samuel Osborne Habershon, John Lee, N. H. Ashton, Francis Camps, Donald Teare, Thomas Grainger Stewart, German Sims Woodhead, James Wallace Stewart, Austin Gresham, Marie Cassidy, Marc Armand Ruffer, Alfred Whitmore, William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, Harold Whittingham. 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 Laennec. In 1823, Hodgkin qual...
