title: Sir Samuel Wilks (1824-1911): brilliant observer who 'rediscovered' Hodgkin's disease.
abstract: Guy's Hospital and its medical school rejoiced in a remarkable group of physicians in the 19th century. These included Richard Bright, a pioneer in the study of chronic nephritis, Thomas Addison, who described two diseases that bear his name (Addison's disease of the suprarenals and Addison's, or pernicious, anaemia), Thomas Hodgkin, who gave the first clear account of lymphadenoma and Sir William Gull, who documented myxoedema, its relationship to the thyroid and its resemblance to cretinism in children.
authors.affiliation: Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of BIomedical Sciences, London.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans