Charles Theodore Williams
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Charles Theodore Williams FRCP, MVO (29 August 1838 – 15 December 1912) was an English physician, known as a leading authority on pulmonary tuberculosis.[http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4778 Munk's Roll Details for Charles Theodore Williams, Royal College of Physicians] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017055100/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4778 |date=17 October 2015 }}{{cite journal|title=Williams, Charles Theodore|journal=Who's Who|year=1911|pages=2173|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639953;view=1up;seq=2209}}
Biography
Charles Theodore, son of the famous physician C. J. B. Williams, was educated at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1860 and his M.A. in 1862.{{cite journal|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/2/2712/1735|title=Obituary. Charles Theodore Williams, M.V.O., M.A., M.D.Oxon., F.R.C.P.|date=21 December 1915|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=2 |issue=2712 |pages=1735–1736 |doi=10.1136/bmj.2.2712.1735 |s2cid=220150579 }} He studied medicine at St George's Hospital, Wandsworth and in Paris, receiving his M.B. in 1864. At Brompton Hospital, he became Assistant Physician in 1867, Physician in 1871, and resigned from the active staff in 1894, to become Consulting Physician. He was President of the Medical Society of London for the year 1889.
In 1868 he married Mary, daughter of John Gwyn Jeffreys.
Honours
Selected publications
- {{cite book|title=The climate of the south of France as suited to invalids: with notices of Mediterranean and other winter stations|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Longmans, Green, & Co|year=1870|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007705086}}
- with Charles James Blasius Williams: {{cite book|title=Pulmonary consumption: its nature, varieties, and treatment, with an analysis of one thousand cases to exemplify its duration|year=1871|location=London|publisher=Longmans, Green, & Co|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002086380}}
- {{cite book|title=Aero-therapeutics, or, The treatment of lung diseases by climate: being the Lumleian lectures for 1893 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, with an address on the high altitudes of Colorado|series=Treatment of lung diseases by climate |year=1894|location=London|publisher=Macmillan & Co|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100467823}}{{cite journal|title=Review of Aero-therapeutics, or the Treatment of Lung Diseases by Climate by Charles Theodore Williams|journal=The Lancet|date=14 July 1894|volume=2|pages=81–82|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046944099;view=1up;seq=97|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(01)64711-1}}
- {{cite book|title=Harveian Oration on old and new views on the treatment of consumption, delivered before the Royal College of Physician of London on October 18, 1911|year=1911 |location=London|publisher=John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001585515}}
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External links
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- [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/charles-theodore-williams-18381912-223040 BBC – Your Paintings – (Charles) Theodore Williams (1838–1912)]
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