Thomas Addison

Thomas Addison ( * April 1793 in Longbenton / Northumberland ( England); † June 29 1860 in Brighton / East Sussex ) was an English physician.

Life

Thomas Addison was the son of Sarah and Joseph Addison, a food and Florist in Long Benton, Northumberland. At school he learned to speak fluent Latin and written records in this language. His father wanted him to be a lawyer, but Thomas Addison wrote in 1812 at Edinburgh University as a medical student, and made ​​in 1815 at the age of 22 years his degree. The title of his PhD was Dissertatio medica de inauguralis quaedam Syphilide et hydrargyro complectens - About syphilis and mercury.

1815 Addison moved to London, where he became a surgeon in the Lock Hospital and pupil of Thomas Bateman ( 1778-1821 ) in a public outpatient clinic. He began in private practice while working in a public hospital admission. His superiors aroused Addisons special and life -standing interest in skin diseases. Probably the lesions in Crohn's Addison drew his attention to this disease.

Addison special career as a physician and scientist began when he was 1817 students at Guy's Hospital in London. In 1819 he received a teaching license in the Royal College of Physicians, in which he was in 1838 elected as a Fellow. 1824 Addison was promoted to assistant physician in 1827 was appointed Lecturer. Addison's income from his lectures at this time is estimated to be 700 to 800 pounds per year.

1835 Addison Co - Professor of Practical Medicine with Richard Bright. In 1837 he became head physician at Guy's Hospital. As a Bright 1840 retired, Addison became his successor as professor and retained this position until 1854 or 1855.

Addison was a brilliant teacher and diagnostician, but as a shy and quiet companion - a circumstance which contributed to the fact that he, unlike other doctors in this position resulted in only a small private practice. Addison was respected at Guy's Hospital and was considered influential. He lectured dogmatic and decided. He is described as a doctor, the more investigated the wheel, which clamps into the "machine patient", as he sees the sentient and suffering beings in the patient.

Addison married in 1847 at the age of 52 years, Elizabeth Catherine Hauxwell, who brought two children from his first marriage. Addison's marriage itself remained childless.

1860 Addison retired - he suffered from depression. On June 29, 1860, he plunged into the ditch in front of his house, where he incurred a fatal head injury.

Work

Addison was the first of the later described by him named Addison's disease with the appropriate symptoms in 1855.

He has published numerous other descriptions of disease, among other things he described in 1839 and 1849 appendicitis pernicious anemia. Addison also made ​​studies on toxins.

More Deonyme

  • Addison's crisis: sudden worsening of pre-existing Addison's disease
  • Addison's anemia, or Addison's anemia disease: pernicious anemia
  • Addison - Schilder syndrome: syndrome of atrophy of the adrenal gland and cerebral demyelination
  • Hypoadrenocorticism: increased pigmentation of the skin and debility, occurring in pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Addison's keloid: Circumscribed scleroderma

Writings

  • De Syphilide et Hydrargyro. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1815. About syphilis and mercury
  • An Essay on the Operation of Poisonous Agents upon the Living Body. With John Morgan ( 1797-1847 ). London, Longman Rees, in 1829. The first book in English on toxic effects on the human body.
  • Observations on the Disorders of Females Connected with uterine irritation. London 1830.
  • Observations on Fatty Degeneration of the Liver.
  • Elements of the Practice of Medicine. With Richard Bright ( 1789-1858 ). 3 vols, London, 1836-1839.
  • On the influence of electricity, as a remedy in Certain convulsive and spasmodic diseases. Guy's Hospital Reports, London, 1837, 2: 493-507. The first therapist forensic use of static electricity.
  • Observations on the Anatomy of the Lungs. 1840th In: Collected Writings, London 1868.
  • Observations on Pneumonia and Its Consequences. In: Guy's Hospital Reports, 2nd Series, 1843, 1: 365-402.
  • On the Pathology of Phthisis. Guy's Hospital Reports, London, 1845, 3: 1-38.
  • Chronic Renal Insufficiency Supra, Usually due to tuberculosis of Supra Renal Capsule. First description of the disease Addisons. In: London Medical Gazette, N.S. 1849, 43: 517-518.
  • On a Certain Affection of the Skin, Vitilgoidea - a plana, b. tuberosa. With remarks. With William Gull. Guy's Hospital Reports, London, 2nd Series, 1851, 7: 265-276.
  • On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra -renal Capsules. London 1855.
  • On the keloid of Alibert, and on true keloid. Medico - Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1854, 37: 27-47. Addison describes two forms of keloids, the system described by Alibert and the " true keloid ," the Addison's keloid
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