Golding Bird

Golding Bird ( * 1815, † October 27, 1854 in London ) was a general practitioner, who ran a hospital station first, which was in direct galvanic current used in the treatment of diseases in humans.

Bird was born in 1815 in England and died in 1854 in London, probably as the result of rheumatic heart disease. Bird was a student of Guy's Hospital in London, where it was set in 1836 as a teacher of philosophy. In this work, Bird wrote a work on the natural sciences, which appeared in his lifetime total in four editions. Bird began working as a general practitioner in London, but was not commercially successful. 1838 Bird was hired in Finsbury Hospital, London, as a doctor, where he remained until 1843, until he was appointed in 1843 as assistant physician at Guy's Hospital. His teaching and research in the field of galvanotherapy began Bird 1847. 1849 he published the first time on this subject (Bird, G., 1849, Lectures on Electricity and galvanism in Their Physiological and Therapeutic Relations, London). Bird built on the basis of his experience, a list of indications for therapeutic application of the galvanic current, which was later extended by other doctors like Robert Remak 1858.

Source

JH Balfour: Biographical sketch of the late Dr Golding Bird. London 1855.

• Physician (19th century)
• Man
• Born in 1815
• Died in 1854