biography
| name: |
Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1828–1913)
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| biography:
| Surgeon, born in Selby, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He became surgeon at the London hospital (1859–83) and professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons (1879–83). He is best known for his lifelong study of syphilis; Hutchinson's incisors (notched front teeth) are characteristic of congenital syphilis, which he first described. He was knighted in 1908. |
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