Thomas Clifford Allbutt

Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt ( born July 20, 1836 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England; † February 22, 1925 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England ) was an English physician.

He invented in 1867 the short clinical thermometer for the first time accurate body temperature measurements enabled with a length of about 15 cm to the patient. Older versions had a length of about 60 cm and were accordingly unwieldy and inaccurate. The hitherto customary administration of morphine was abandoned by his description of morphine addiction in the war hospitals.

From 1893 he was professor of medicine ( Regius Professor of Physic ) at the University of Cambridge.