Frederick Batten

Frederick Batten was born on 29 September 1865 in Plymouth.{{cite web |title=Frederick Eustace Batten |url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/frederick-eustace-batten |website=history.rcplondon.ac.uk |access-date=3 July 2022}} He attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge,{{acad|id=BTN884FE|name=Batten, Frederick Eustace}} and graduated in medicine in 1891 from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London. He worked as a pathologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and as a physician at the National Hospital. He obtained his doctorate in 1895, became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1901, and was elected dean in 1908. Batten disease was named after him after he first described it in 1903.

Batten died from infection after a routine prostatectomy.{{cite book|author1=Sara Mole|authorlink1=Sara Mole|author2=Ruth Williams|author3=Hans Goebel|title=The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (Batten Disease)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aFaYzRyqXu0C&pg=PA10|date=10 March 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-959001-8|page=10}}

• Batten disease

• {{cite journal|title=Eponym: Frederick E. Batten: father of pediatric neurology

|author=E. Chaves-Carballo

|journal=Southern Medical Journal|date=1979|volume=71|issue=11|pages=1428–1429|pmid=362542|doi=10.1097/00007611-197811000-00033}}

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Category:19th-century English medical doctors

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