Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan

Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology
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b. 23 July 1828 Selby, Yorkshire, England
d. 26 June 1913 Haslemere, Surrey, England
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English physician and surgeon, ophthalmologist, syphilologist, neuropathologist and inventor of the spirometer for the measurement of lung volumes.
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Born of Quaker stock, he was educated at home and apprenticed in 1845 to Caleb Williams, apothecary and surgeon of York. It was during this period that he developed and described his spirometer, which he had used in testing 121 sailors, 24 pugilists and wrestlers and 4 giants and dwarfs.
In 1850 he left York to complete his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. By 1859 he was on the staff of the London Hospital as well as the many other specialist hospitals, including the Royal London Ophthalmic, the Blackfriars Hospital for Skin Diseases and the Royal Lock, the multiplicity of which reflected the very wide variety of his interests and expertise.
By 1863, having obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, he had been appointed full Surgeon to London Hospital and was also responsible for medical ophthalmology. In 1883 he was appointed Emeritus Professor, and for many years after was deeply involved in a wide variety of medical interests. A vivid and memorable teacher, his name has been given to a large number of conditions, particularly in the fields of syphilis and ophthalmology. His special gift was an acuity of observation coupled with the accumulation and collation of clinical facts.
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Principal Honours and Distinctions
Knighted 1908. FRS 1882. Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons 1879–83; Hunterian Orator 1891.
Bibliography
1846, "On the capacity of the lungs", Med-Chi. Transactions, London (describes his spirometer).
1878–84, Illustrations of Clinical Surgery, London.
Further Reading
Obituary, 1913, Lancet (June).
Obituary, 1913, British Medical Journal (June).
Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, London: Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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