Hodgkin, Thomas

Hodgkin, Thomas

▪ British physician
born Aug. 17, 1798, Tottenham, Middlesex, Eng.
died April 5, 1866, Jaffa, Palestine [now Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel]

      English physician who early described (1832) the malignant disease of lymph tissue that bears his name.

      Educated at the University of Edinburgh, Hodgkin was an associate of the eminent physicians Richard Bright and Thomas Addison at Guy's Hospital, London. His achievements in the field of pathology also include one of the earliest descriptions of aortic insufficiency (1827).

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