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Frederick Akbar Mahomed's grandfather was the [[British Bangladeshi|Bengali]] [[British Indian|Indian]] traveller [[Sake Dean Mahomed]], who, with his [[Irish people|Irish]] wife Jane Daly, had five children: Rosanna, Henry, Horatio, Frederick, and Arthur.<ref name=Ansari>{{citation|title=The Infidel Within: The History of Muslims in Britain, 1800 to the Present|first=Humayun|last=Ansari|year=2004|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=1850656851|page=58}}</ref> One of these was Frederick Akbar Mahomed's father, who ran a [[boxing]] and [[fencing]] academy near Brighton.<ref name=Rourke>{{citation|last=O'Rourke|first=Michael F.|title=Frederick Akbar Mahomed|journal=Hypertension|year=1992|volume=19|publisher=[[American Heart Association]]|pages=212-217 [212-3]}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 09:30, 10 January 2009
Frederick Henry Horatio Akbar Mahomed (c. 1849-1884)[1] was an internationally known British physician of the late 19th century.[2]
Family
Frederick Akbar Mahomed's grandfather was the Bengali Indian traveller Sake Dean Mahomed, who, with his Irish wife Jane Daly, had five children: Rosanna, Henry, Horatio, Frederick, and Arthur.[2] One of these was Frederick Akbar Mahomed's father, who ran a boxing and fencing academy near Brighton.[1]
Career
Frederick Akbar Mahomed, who worked at Guy's Hospital in London,[3] made substantial contributions to the study of high blood pressure during his short professional career from 1872 to 1884, when he died at the age of 35. Michael F. O'Rourke summarizes the contributions of Frederick Akbar Mahomed as follows:[4]
In detailed clinical studies, he separated chronic nephritis with secondary hypertension from what we now term essential hypertension. He described the constitutional basis and natural history of essential hypertension and pointed out that this disease could terminate with nephrosclerosis and renal failure. His clinical studies were done without the benefit of a sphygmomanometer but with the aid of a quantitative sphygmogram that he had initially developed while a medical student. He described characteristic features of the pressure pulse in patients with high blood pressure and in persons with arteriosclerosis consequent on aging. These pressure wave changes have recently been verified and explained. He contributed to a number of other advances in medical care, including blood transfusion and appendectomy for appendicitis. He initiated the Collective Investigation Record for the British Medical Association; this organization collected data from physicians practicing outside the hospital setting and was the precursor of modern collaborative clinical trials.
References
- ^ a b O'Rourke, Michael F. (1992), "Frederick Akbar Mahomed", Hypertension, 19, American Heart Association: 212-217 [212-3]
- ^ a b Ansari, Humayun (2004), The Infidel Within: The History of Muslims in Britain, 1800 to the Present, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, p. 58, ISBN 1850656851
- ^ O'Rourke, Michael F. (1992), "Frederick Akbar Mahomed", Hypertension, 19, American Heart Association: 212-217 [213]
- ^ O'Rourke, Michael F. (1992), "Frederick Akbar Mahomed", Hypertension, 19, American Heart Association: 212-217 [212]