CURLING, Thomas Blizard (1811 – 1888)
1811 – 1888
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1842 CE
#3445
On acute ulceration of the duodenum, in cases of burn.
“Curling’s ulcer”. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it.
1850 CE
#3818
Two cases of absence of the thyroid body and symmetrical swellings of fat tissue at the sides of the neck, connected with defective cerebral development.
Curling, of the London Hospital, was the first accurately to note the clinical picture of cretinism, which Ord was later to name “myxedema”. Curling was also the first to suggest deficiency of the thyroid …