Theodore Hough
{{short description|American physiologist (1865 – 1924)}}
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Theodore Hough{{pron}} (1865–1924) was an American physician who first described delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) in 1902.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5JZMRkU7EkC|title=Sarcopenia – Age-Related Muscle Wasting and Weakness: Mechanisms and Treatments|first=Gordon S.|last=Lynch|date=30 November 2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-90-481-9713-2 |via=Google Books}}
Biography
Hough was born in Virginia in 1865. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. After graduation, he was employed as a professor at MIT where he worked with William T. Sedgwick. In 1907, he became the chair of physiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and became dean in 1916.{{cite journal|journal=Boston Med Surg J|title=Theodore Hough, M.D.|date=December 11, 1924|volume=191 |issue=24 |page=1145 |doi=10.1056/nejm192412111912422}} In 1922, he was president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Selected publications
- [https://archive.org/details/humanmechanismit00hougrich The Human Mechanism: Its Physiology and Hygiene and the Sanitation of its Surroundings] (with William Thompson Sedgwick, 1906)
- [https://archive.org/details/elementsofhygien00hougrich/page/n4/mode/2up Elements of Hygiene and Sanitation] (with William Thompson Sedgwick, 1918)
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Category:American physiologists
Category:University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty
Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni
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