Thomas Clifford Allbutt
| Thomas Clifford Allbutt | |
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 Thomas Clifford Allbutt |
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| Born | July 20, 1836 Dewsbury, Yorkshire |
| Died | February 22, 1925 (aged 88) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | medicine |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | clinical thermometer |
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Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (20 July 1836 – 22 February 1925) was a British physician and inventor of the clinical thermometer.
Thomas Clifford Allbutt was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, the son of Rev. Thomas Allbutt, Vicar of Dewsbury and Mary Anne Wooler (1801-1843). He was educated at St Peter's School, York and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1859, with a First Class degree in natural sciences in 1860.[1]
Allbutt's invention of the clinical thermometer was widely welcomed because, beforehand, patients were required to hold a one-foot-long thermometer in their hands which took about twenty minutes for an acceptable measurement to be taken of their body temperature.
Allbutt became regius professor of physic (an archaic word for medicine) at the University of Cambridge in 1892 and was knighted in 1907. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1922.[2] He died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire in 1925. He had no children.
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- ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Allbutt, Thomas Clifford". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- Pearce JM (October 2003). "Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt". Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 74 (10): 1443. doi:10.1136/jnnp.74.10.1443. PMC 1757394. PMID 14570845. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1757394.
- Keynes M, Butterfield J (May 1993). "Sir Clifford Allbutt: physician and Regius Professor 1892-1925". Journal of Medical Biography 1 (2): 67–75. PMID 11639863.
- Schneck JM (May 1970). "Tertius Lydgate in Middlemarch and Thomas Clifford Allbutt". New York State Journal of Medicine 70 (9): 1086–90. PMID 4914393.
- Fulton JF (January 1957). "Medicine and the humanities: Linacre and Allbutt". Transactions. American College of Cardiology 7: 24–38. PMID 13409430.
- Chesney AM (July 1956). "Medicine in the 19th century: T. Clifford Allbutt; explanatory notes". Journal of Medical Education 31 (7 Part 1): 460–8. PMID 13332384.
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