Benjamin Guy Babington
Benjamin Guy Babington (5 March 1794-8 April 1866) was an English physician and epidemiologist.[1]
He was the son of the physician and mineralogist William Babington (1756–1833) and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Babington, was born on 5 March 1794.
After serving as a midshipman and studying at Charterhouse School from 1803 to 1807 then the East India Company College, he worked in government at Madras, India. Returning to England, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital and Cambridge, receiving his doctorate in 1831.
In 1850 he founded the London Epidemiological Society and was its chairman for many years. At least one authority refers to the founding as the beginning of modern epidemiology.[2]
During his career, he invented several medical instruments and techniques. He wrote several papers and translated several others.
He died on 8 April 1866 [3], .
References
- ^ Who Named it?
- ^ International Journal of Epidemiology
- ^ ODNB article by J. F. Payne, ‘Babington, Benjamin Guy (1794–1866)’, rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1], accessed 10 March 2008.
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