William Howship Dickinson

William Howship Dickinson
Born 9 June 1832
Brighton, East Sussex, England
Died 9 January 1913 (aged 80)
Nationality British
Alma mater Cambridge, England
Occupation Doctor
Known for Kidney specialist

William Howship Dickinson (9 June 1832 – 9 January 1913) was a British doctor.[1] He was educated at Cambridge and later trained at St George’s Hospital.

He wrote one of the first accounts of familial kidney disease.[2][3] Affected family members had proteinuria but did not have typical features of the condition known as Alport syndrome.

He worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was particularly interested in children with neurological conditions.[4] He also worked as a censor and curator of the museum at the Royal College of Physicians. He also served as an examiner in medicine to the Royal College of Surgeons, and to the universities of Cambridge, London and Durham.

He was President of the Pathological Society of London from 1889 to 1891.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "WILLIAM HOWSHIP DICKINSON, M.D.Cantab., F.R.C.P.Lond". Br Med J. 1 (2716): 141–143. 1913. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2716.141. PMC 2298445Freely accessible.
  2. ↑ doctor/345 at Who Named It?
  3. ↑ Dickinson, W. H. (1875) Diseases of the kidney and urinary derangements. London, Langmans, part 2: 278.
  4. ↑ Waltz M; Shattock P (2004). "Autistic disorder in nineteenth-century London: three case reports". Autism. 8 (1): 7–20. doi:10.1177/1362361304040635. PMID 15070544.
  5. ↑ "Transactions of the Pathological Society". Retrieved 27 October 2012.

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