George Huntington
George Sumner Huntington (
April 9,
1850 -
March 3,
1916) was an
American physician.
Huntington's disease bears his name because he described it in the first of only two academic papers he ever wrote. He wrote this paper when he was 22, one year after getting his medical degree at
Columbia University in New York City. Initially he read the paper before the
Meigs and Mason Academy of Medicine at Middleport, Ohio on
February 15,
1872. It was later published in the
Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia, on
April 13,
1872. See wikisource for the text of this paper.
His father, George Lee Huntington
1811-
1881) and grandfather, Dr. Abel Huntington (
1778-
1858), were also physicians in the same family practice. Their observations combined with his own were invaluable in precisely describing this disease, which afflicted several generations of a family in
East Hampton on
Long Island.
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George Huntington's paper |
William Osler "In the history of medicine, there are few instances in which a disease has been more accurately, more graphically or more briefly described."
In
1874 He returned to Duchess County, New York to practice medicine.[
1]
External links
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2] 'History of Medicine Bulletin - The Johns Hopkins University' : Much more biographical information.
