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Leslie Paton
British physician, born August 22, 1872; Edinburgh.
Associated eponyms:
Gowers' syndrome II
Irregular contraction of pupil as an early sign of tabes dorsalis.
Kennedy's syndrome
Condition characterised by unilateral ipsilateral atrophy with contralateral papilloedema, central scotoma, and anosmia (absence of the sense of smell).
Biography:
Leslie Paton studied at Cambridge, Glasgow, and London, and received his doctorate at Cambridge in 1900, becoming fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He became an ophthalmic surgeon at St. Mary’s Hospital as well as the National Hospital for the Paralysed and the Epileptic, and from 1902 to 1928 lectured on ophthalmology at St. Mary’s Hospital.
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