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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

British physiologist
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Born:
June 8, 1783, Winterslow, Wiltshire, Eng.
Died:
Oct. 21, 1862, Broome Park, Surrey (aged 79)
Title / Office:
baronet (1834)
Royal Society (1810)
Awards And Honors:
Copley Medal (1811)
Notable Works:
“Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints”
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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (born June 8, 1783, Winterslow, Wiltshire, Eng.—died Oct. 21, 1862, Broome Park, Surrey) was a British physiologist and surgeon whose name is applied to certain diseases of the bones and joints. Brodie was assistant surgeon at St. George’s Hospital for 14 years. In 1810 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Probably his most important work was Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints (1818), in which he attempted to trace the beginnings of disease in the different tissues that form a joint and to give an exact value ...(100 of 159 words)

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