- A dictionary of medical eponyms

Thomas Caspar Gilchrist

Born  1862
Died  1927

Related eponyms

American dermatologist, born June 15, 1862, Crewe, Cheshire, England; died November 14, 1927.

Biography of Thomas Caspar Gilchrist

Thomas Caspar Gilchrist studied medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He left England for America in 1890 and from 1897 he was clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland, from 1898 in the same position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. In 1907 the University of Maryland conferred on him an honorary M.D. He was president of the American Dermatology Association in 1909. Gilchrist. He published extensively in his speciality, on acne vulgaris, experimental urticaria, erypseloid, roentgen dermatitis, porokeratosis, sarcoma of skin, and fatty atrophy.

Bibliography

  • Outlines of common skin diseases. Baltimore, 1915.

What is an eponym?

An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.

What is Whonamedit?

Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

Disclaimer:

Whonamedit? does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.