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Alfred Eddowes
British dermatologist, born November 26, 1850, Pontesbury, Shropshire; died 1946.
Associated eponyms:
Ekman-Lobstein syndrome
This rather infrequently used eponym denotes the association of brittle bones and blue sclerae, with absence of deafness. It is an inherited disorder characterised by extreme fragility of bones that begins in childhood.
Van der Hoeve's syndrome
Osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bones syndrome, occurs in four types.
Biography:
The son of a doctor, Alfred Eddowes entered medical school in the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in 1873, gaining his M.D. three years later, in 1876.
Eddowes subsequently worked at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and studied in Vienna, in Hamburg under Unna (1850-1879), and Paris (Hôpital St.-Louis). He worked as a house surgeon at the Royal Salop Hospital for 4 years and then in general practice for 11 years in his native county of Shropshire. Back in London he gained his membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1897 and specialized in dermatology, working in skin departments in a number of hospitals including John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in Leicester Square. He was a lecturer of dermatology from 1906 to 1913.
He was appointed Honorary Dermatologist to the Artist’s Section of the Stage Guild.
His work concerns the Herxheimer’s spirals and other microscopic studies in the field of dermatology.
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