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William Richard Basham
English physician, born 1804, Diss, Norfolk; died October 16, 1877.
Associated eponyms:
Basham's mixture
A clear, aromatic, reddish-brown solution of iron and ammonium acetate which has been used in iron-deficiency anaemia in animals and man.
Biography:
William Richard Basham first intended to pursue a career in business and worked in a bank, before commencing the study of chemistry in order to qualify for the directorship of a brewery. It was not until 1831 that he changed to medicine, and in that year entered the Westminster Hospital, which was then established in James Street, Westminster. He remained associated with that hospital for the rest of his life. Among his teachers were William Lynn (1753-1837), Sir Anthony Carlisle (1768-1840), Anthony White (1782-1849), George James Guthrie (1785-1856) and Richard Bright (1789-1858). In 1833 he studied in Edinburg, and received his doctorate in that town on August 1 the following year with the thesis On the Agency of the Atmosphere on Vegetable and Animal Life.
Tthe following year, before returning to Westminster Hospital to work as clinical assistant 1834-1835. Basham then embarked on a more than three year journey to China and India on the ship Hythe in the service of the East India Company. It was one of the last voyages made by that company. On the Canton River he was wounded by a sabre in the leg.
The year that he took his degree, the Westminster Hospital was moved to its present site, and he was up to the last fond of telling his friends how he Mr. Hancock, as house-surgeons, superintended the removal of the patients to their new quarters.
In 1838 he became a member of the College of Physicians, and in 1843 Physician to the Westminster Hospital, and in 1849, with Dr Hamilton Roe, was appointed associate professor of internal medicine and materia medica. From 1855 he held this tenure alone, resigning in 1871. In 1850 he was also elected fellow of the College of Physicians. The majority of his work concerns diseases of the kidney. In 1864 he delivered the Croonian lectures of the College of Physicians, at which institution he served twice as sensor.
Basham's brilliance as a botanist, chemist, microscopist and artist, as well as his scientific mind and his gift for painstaking observations, contribute to the excellence of his work.
- Obituary. William Richard Basham, M.D, F.R.C.P.
British Medical Journal, October 27, 1877, 2(878): 609.
Bibliography:
- On the progress of medicine, by William Richard Basham.
An Introductory Lecture delivered at the Westminster Hospital on Friday, October 1, 1852.
- On Dropsy connected with Diseases of the Kidneys (Morbus Brightii), and on some other diseases of those organs, associated with albuminous and purulent urine, illustrated with numerous drawings from the microscope.
London, 1858 : John Churchill & Sons, New Burlington Street.
2nd editi8on 1862, 3rd edition, enlarged, revised and re-arranged, 1866.
- The significance of dropsy as a symptom in renal, cardiac, and pulmonary diseases. London, 1864.
The Croonian Lectures for 1864, delivered before the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of England.
- Renal diseases: a clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. London, 1870.
- Aids to the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Kidneys. London, 1872.
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