George Budd FRS (1808–1882): Pioneer Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist

Paget J . Dr. George Budd. Proc R Soc Land 1882; 34: i–iii.

The late Dr. George Budd, F.R.S. Lancet. 1882; i: 499.

Obituary: George Budd. Medico-Chir Trans 1883; 66: 8–10.

Salter SJA . Budd, George, M.D. (1808–1882). In: Dictionary of National Biography. London: Oxford University Press, 1886: vol. 7, p. 219.

Budd, George. In: Brown GH , ed. Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1826–1925. London: Royal College of Physicians, 1955: 27.

Obituary. Budd MD William . Lancet. 1880, i: 148–9.

Bettany GT . Budd, William (1811–1880). In: Dictionary of National Biography. London: Oxford University Press, 1886: vol. 7, pp. 220–1.

Budd family letters. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (Western MS 5153). This archive contains 102 letters, including 15 from George Budd to his father and three of his brothers: William, Richard and Christian.

Cook GC. From the Greenwich Hulks to Old St Paneras: A History of Tropical Disease in London. London: Athlone Press, 1992: 33–67.

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Budd G Busk G. Report of twenty cases of Malignant Cholera that occurred in the Seamen's Hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837. Medico-Chir Trans 1838; 21,: 152–86.

Budd G. Observations on the stethoscope. Lond Med Gaz 1837; 20: 297–303.

Budd G. Statistical account of cholera, in the Seamen's Hospital, in 1832. Medico-Chir Trans 1839; 22: 110–23.

SHS minute book 4 (August 1834-May 1840). Meeting, 7 April 1837: 236.

Ibid.: Meeting, 20 April 1837: 240.

Ibid.: Meeting, 21 April 1837: 241.

Ibid.: Meeting, 15 June 1838: 358.

Ibid.: Meeting, 22 June 1838: 359.

Ibid.: Meeting, 1 November 1839: 497.

Ibid.: Meeting, 23 February 1839: 425.

Origin and Progress of the Hospital for Sick and Diseased Seamen in the Port of London, on Board the Dreadnought, 104 Gun Ship, Moored off Greenwich. London: W Gilbert, 1840: 19.

Budd G . Scurvy. In: Tweedie A , ed. A System of Practical Medicine Comprised in a Series of Original Dissertations. London: Whittaker and Co., 1840: vol. 5, pp. 58–95.

SHS minute book 4 (August 1834-May 1840). Meeting, 5 February 1840: 521.

SHS minute book 5 (June 1840-February 1846). Meeting, 17 July 1840: 12–13.

Ibid.: Meeting, 31 July 1840: 17–18.

Ibid.: Meeting, 14 August 1840: 23.

Ibid.: Meeting, 23 October 1840: 40–1.

Ibid.: Meeting, 4 November 1840: 44.

Origin and Progress of the Seamen's Hospital Society for Sick and Diseased Seamen in the Port of London, on Board the Dreadnought, 104 Gun Ship, Moored off Greenwich. London: W Gilbert, 1841: 19.

SHS minute book 5 (June 1840-February 1846). Meeting, 28 January 1842: 155.

Budd G. Clinical lecture on diabetes mellitus. Lond Med Gaz 1842; 1: 161–9.

Prout William (1785–1850) was a distinguished English physician who in 1824 demonstrated the importance of free gastric hydrochloric acid in the digestive process. He also worked on pancreatic juice. Further work involved ingestion (by himself) of potassium iodide in order to ascertain the safety of this compound before it was used therapeutically as a remedy for goitre.

Singer C Underwood EA . Some physiological advances. Vitamins and deficiency diseases. In: A Short History of Medicine (2nd edn). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962: 154–61, 610–22.

Budd G. Lectures on the disorders resulting from defective nutriment. Lond Med Gaz 1842; 2: 632–6, 712–16, 743–9, 825–31, 906–15.

Budd G. An Introductory Lecture, Read to the Medical Classes, in King's College, London, October 1, 1847. London: John Churchill, 1847: 24.

Budd G. On Diseases of the Liver. London: John Churchill, 1845.

Budd G. On the Organic Diseases and Functional Disorders of the Stomach. London: John Churchill, 1855.

Budd G. Gulstonian lectures, delivered at the College of Physicians, February 1843. Lond Med Gaz 1843; 1: 1–9, 33–42, 65–73.

Budd G. The Croonian lectures, delivered at the College of Physicians, in February 1847. Lond Med Gaz 1847; 4: 894–901, 982–90, 1109–18.

Budd G. Lectures on the organic diseases and functional disorders of the stomach. Med Times Gaz 1853; 6: 363–4, 389–90, 465–7, 515–17, 565–8, 617–21; and 7: 27–9, 207–11.

Budd G. Lectures on the functional disorders of the stomach. Med Times Gaz 1854; 8: 27–30, 77–9, 125–8, 177–SO, 257–60, 310–12, 365–7, 424–7.

Annesley J. Researches into the Causes, Nature and Treatment of the More Prevalent Diseases of India, and of Warm Climates Generally. Illustrated with Cases, Post Mortem Examinations, and Numerous Coloured Engravings of Morbid Structures, 2 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1828: 687, 586.

Boyle J. A Practical Medico-historical Account of the Western Coast of Africa: Embracing a Topographical Description of its Shores, Rivers, and Settlements, with Their Seasons and Comparative Healthiness; Together with the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, of the Fevers of Western Africa; and a Similar Account Respecting the Other Diseases which Prevail There. London: S Highley, 1831: 423.

Palmer ED. Budd-Chiari syndrome (occlusion of the hepatic veins): seven cases. Ann Intern Med. 1954; 41: 261–71.

Durham RH. Encyclopedia of Medical Syndromes. New York: Paul B Hoeber, Inc., 1960: 106–7.