Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1710

GEORGE BUDD (1808-1882) On diseases of the liver. Lea & Blanchard 1846 viii [13]-392, 32 pp., 2 col. plates, 20 illus. 22.9 cm.

Budd was a member of a large medical family, with six of his eight brothers entering the medical profession. He completed his degree at Cambridge and studied medicine at Paris and Middlesex Hospital. In 1837 Budd was appointed physician to the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich and in 1840 was made professor of medicine at King's College, London, being one of the first two physicians to King's College Hospital. Budd gained valuable experience at the Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital where he made important contributions regarding cholera among sailors and also had the opportunity to study liver diseases which were frequent among men who had spent considerable time in the tropics. This comprehensive work on liver diseases was first published at London in 1845 and includes a description of chronic hepatic enlargement known as Budd's cirrhosis.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3619 (London ed., 1845); Wellcome II, p. 265 (London ed., 1845)