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Howard Henry Tooth

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update August 27, 2019

Howard Henry Tooth (1856–1925)

Howard Henry Tooth (1856–1925) was an English neurologist.

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Biography

  • Born 22 April 1856 Sussex, England
  • 1877 – St John’s College in Cambridge. BA (1877), MA (1881)
  • 1880-1885 St Bartholomew’s Hospital. MB (1882), MRCS (1880), MD (1885), FRCP (1888)
  • 1898-1901 Physician at the Portland field hospital, during the South African War
  • 1914-1919 WWI Colonel, A.M.S
  • Physician to St Bartholomew’s Hospital and to the National Hospital for paralysed and epileptic.
  • 1918 – CMG (Companion of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George).
  • Died 13 May 1925 Hadleigh, Suffolk

Medical Eponyms

  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (1886)

Key Medical Attributions


Controversies


Major Publications

  • Tooth HH. The peroneal type of progressive muscular atrophy. Thesis; for the degree of M.D. in the University of Cambridge, 1886

References

  • Obituary: Howard H Tooth, C.B., C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.P. Br Med J 1925;1:988
  • In memoriam: Dr Howard H. Tooth, C.B., C.M.G. Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports. 1925; 58: 9-15
  • Biography: Howard Henry Tooth Munk’s Roll: Volume IV. Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London
  • Pearce JMS. Howard Henry Tooth (1856–1925). Journal of Neurology. 2000;247:3-4
  • Alumni: Tooth, Howard Henry (TT873HH). Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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