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Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson , (1792 – 11 December 1882) was a British
physician who is primarily known for describing the
water hammer pulse found in
aortic regurgitation in 1844. He was president of the
Royal College of Physicians from 1862 to 1866.
[1]
He was born in 1792, the son of Joseph Watson, in Kentisbeare, near
Honiton ,
East Devon , and educated at
Bury St Edmunds Grammar School . He entered
St John's College, Cambridge , graduating in 1815.
[2] He was elected a
fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1826 and delivered the
Gulstonian Lecture in 1827 and the
Lumleian lecture in 1831.
He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Edinburgh and graduated M.D. from Cambridge University in 1825. He was appointed physician to the Middlesex hospital in 1827 and was professor of clinical medicine at the University of London for a year before transferring to King's College as professor of Forensic Medicine and later professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine.
In 1833,
Dominic Corrigan , a British physician, first described the visible abrupt distention and collapse of
carotid arteries in patients with
aortic insufficiency . Watson went on to investigate the palpable
pulse in these patients and, following his elaboration, the
clinical sign is also referred to as
Watson's pulse .
He resigned his chair at King’s College in 1840 and his post in the Middlesex hospital in 1843 and in 1859 was appointed physician extraordinary to the queen. He was created a
baronet in 1866
[3] and in 1870 was appointed physician in ordinary to the queen.
In 1857 he was elected to serve for two years as president of the
Pathological Society
[4] and in 1859 was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society ,
[5] In 1868 he was elected president of the
Clinical Society of London .
[6]
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