GB 0100 TH/PP67 - THUDICHUM, Johann Ludwig Wilhelm (1829-1901)

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The letters were in the possession of Professor L Young of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School.

GB 0100 TH/PP67 1869, 1871 Collection (fonds) 2 letters Thudichum , Johann Ludwig Wilhelm , 1829-1901 , neurochemist also known as Thudichum , John Lewis William , 1829-1901

Born, Büdingen, Germany, 1829; met the chemist Julius Liebig in 1847; medical student, University of Giessen, 1847; worked in Liebig's laboratory, developing a keen interest in biological chemistry; emigrated to London, 1853, during the war between Prussia and Denmark; physician at St Pancras Dispensary, 1856; practiced medicine throughout his life as an otologist and rhinologist; invented a nasal speculum; lecturer in chemistry at the Grosvenor Place School of Medicine, 1858; later director of a pathological and chemical laboratory; published his first book on the analysis of urine, 1858; Lecturer on Pathological Chemistry at St Thomas's Hospital, 1865; chemist to the medical department of the Privy Council, 1866; began to investigate the effects of cholera on the brain and research into his major original work on the chemical constitution of the brain; discovered hematoporphyria, the brain cephalius, galactose, glucose, lactic acid, cerebranic sulfatides and many other chemicals, conducted research in his private laboratory from 1871; published the first English edition of Treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain, 1884; a controversial figure and many colleagues disputed his findings; considered to be the founder of neurochemistry; died, London, 1901.

Publications: Treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain (Baillière, Tindall and Cox, London, 1884); The progress of Medical Chemistry. comprising its application to: Physiology, pathology and the practice of medicine (Bailliere, Tindall and Cox., 1896); some 80 major scientific publications.

The letters were in the possession of Professor L Young of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School.

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Letter to Dr Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum, from F Hoppe-Seyler, Tubingen, 1869; and letter from Justus Liebig, Academie der Wissenschaften, 1871.

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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

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Photographic copies are kept with the original letters.

Sources: Cyberlipid Center website: http://www.cyberlipid.org/phlip/aidethudi.htm; Founders of Neurology website: http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcne/founders/page0094.html; British Library Public On-line catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

May 2002; revised January 2003, January 2004 Chemistry England Europe Hoppe-Seyler , F , fl 1869 x Seyler , F , Hoppe- Liebig , Julius , fl 1871 , German chemist London Medical sciences Southwark St Thomas' Hospital , London Surgery Thudichum , Johann Ludwig Wilhelm , 1829-1901 , neurochemist UK Western Europe

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Letter to Dr Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum, from F Hoppe-Seyler, Tubingen, 1869; and letter from Justus Liebig, Academie der Wissenschaften, 1871.

Arranged as described in the Scope and Content.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

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German

Detailed catalogue

Photographic copies are kept with the original letters.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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