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Hastings Gilford
English surgeon, 1861-1941.
Associated eponyms:
Gilford-Burnier syndrome
A syndrome characterised by dwarfing, adiposogenital dystrophy and optic atrophy.
Hutchinson-Gilford disease
A very rare disease of premature aging in young children, characterized mainly by a birdlike, "wizened old man" facial appearance, premature bodily ageing (progeria) and dwarfism.
Biography:
Hastings Gilford graduated in medicine from Guy’s Hospital in 1887. He set up a general practice in ding and was rapidly recognised for his skills as an obstetrician and paediatrician. He went into consultant practice and he gained his FRCS in 1889. In 1904, when he described progeria, he was a surgeon at the Reading Dispensary.
Gilford was one of the early environmentalists, contending that a main cause of cancer was our unnatural way of living.
Bibliography:
On progeria:
- On a condition of mixed premature and immature development.
Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1897, 80: 17-45.
- Progeria: a form of senilism.
Practitioner, London, 1904, 73: 188-217.
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