Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin was an English physician and pathologist who worked at Guy's Hospital in London, where he served as museum curator and built his reputation through anatomical work on autopsies, before later teaching at St Thomas' Hospital. In an 1832 paper on the morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen he described a lymphatic disease that came to bear his name, though the eponym Hodgkin's disease, now called Hodgkin lymphoma, was not widely adopted until physician Samuel Wilks revived and championed it thirty-three years later. Hodgkin also collaborated with Joseph Jackson Lister on microscopy work regarded as foundational to modern histology, and, shaped by his Quaker background, was active in causes including medical education reform, the welfare of indigenous peoples and the abolition of slavery.