1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford

ALLBUTT, SIR THOMAS CLIFFORD (1836–⁠), English physician, was born at Dewsbury, Yorks., July 20 1836. He was educated at St. Peter’s, York, and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in the natural science tripos in 1860. He studied medicine at St. George's Hospital and afterwards in Paris, subsequently practising in London and Leeds. He carried out many researches on the pathology of the nervous system, and made important studies of tetanus and hydrophobia. He also devoted much time to the study of ophthalmoscopy, and was the inventor of the short clinical thermometer. He was consulting physician to many institutions, and from 1889 to 1892 was a commissioner in lunacy. In 1892 he became Regius professor of physic at Cambridge, and in 1907 was created K.C.B. Sir Clifford Allbutt was a member of many Government committees, including the Home Office inquiry into trade diseases, and during the World War he was an hon. colonel in the R.A.M.C.

His published works include The Ophthalmoscope in Medicine (1871); On Scrofula (1885); Diseases of the Heart (Lane lectures, 1896); Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery (1905); Greek Medicine in Rome (Fitzpatrick lectures, 1909–10); Diseases of the Arteries and Angina Pectoris (1915) and Science in the School (1917). He also edited Systems of Medicine and Gynaecology (1896, 1899, 1907).