George Budd M.D. (23 February 1808 – 14 March 1882) was an English physician, medical writer and academic.
He was born atNorth Tawton,Devon, on 23 February 1808, the third son of Samuel Budd, a surgeon there, and with six brothers entered the medical profession. After education at home, he enteredSt John's College in 1827, subsequently migrating toCaius College, and becoming fellow of Caius after taking his degree (thirdwrangler, 1831).[1][2]
Budd pursued medical studies in Paris and at theMiddlesex Hospital, London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1836. In 1837, while still a M.B., he was appointed physician to theDreadnought seamen's hospital ship atGreenwich. Here withGeorge Busk he researchedcholera,scurvy, and the pathology of the stomach and liver. In 1840 he graduated M.D. at Cambridge and was elected professor of medicine atKing's College London, and in 1841 he became a fellow of theRoyal College of Physicians, being censor 1845–7.[1]
In 1863 Budd retired from his medical professorship in King's College, of which he was then made an honorary fellow, and in 1867, in poor health, he gave up his large practice in London, and retired toBarnstaple. In 1880 he was made an honorary fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, having ceased to be a fellow many years before, on his marriage. He died 14 March 1882, aged 74.[1]
Budd first came to notice by writing on thestethoscope as an acoustic instrument (Medical Gazette, 1837). His treatiseDiseases of the Liver (1845) systematised the practical knowledge of liver diseases for a generation;[1] and described what is now known asBudd–Chiari syndrome, already noticed in 1842 byCarl von Rokitansky.[3] It was followed byDiseases of the Stomach (1855). His report on cases of cholera in theDreadnought during 1837, written with Busk, and his statistical account of cases collected from the records of the same hospital in the epidemic of 1832, were also standard works, summarised in "Cholera", which Budd contributed toAlexander Tweedie'sLibrary of Practical Medicine, vol. iv.; vol. v. contained his "Scurvy".[1]
Budd published papers and lectures in medical journals, especially theMedical Gazette, including hisGulstonian Lectures (1843) andCroonian Lectures (1847) at the College of Physicians.[1]
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Budd, George (1808-1882)".Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
