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studies. He then commenced practice as a Physician in London, 

 and having obtained the Degree of M.D. from the University of 

 Oxford, was in 1837 admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians. 

 About the time of his settling in London Dr. Todd became Teacher 

 of Anatomy in the Aldersgate School of Medicine ; and in 1836 he 

 was appointed Professor of Physiology and of General and Morbid 

 Anatomy in King's College. This Professorship he held until 1853, 

 when he felt himself compelled to withdraw from it, in consequence 

 of his increasing occupation as a Physician in large practice ; mean- 

 while the opening of King's College Hospital, in the establishment of 

 which he had taken an active part, afforded him a field for acquiring 

 experience as a hospital physician, and for exercising his talent in 

 clinical instruction, a duty he continued to perform until within a few 

 weeks of his death. 



Dr. Todd's was a life of active thought and steadfast work ; and 

 accordingly he soon acquired distinction as a medical teacher and 

 writer, and as a scientific inquirer. About the outset of his career in 

 London he projected the well-known ' Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and 

 Physiology,' of which he was the Editor, and to which he contributed 

 several important articles. Some years later he published, in asso- 

 ciation with Mr. Bowman, ' The Physiological Anatomy and Physio- 

 logy of Man,' a work abounding in valuable original matter. Of 

 various subjects in Physiology which engaged his attention, the 

 nervous system was perhaps that which interested him the most, 

 and he has ably and lucidly written on its structure, functions, and 

 diseases. But it was as a practical physician and clinical professor 

 that Dr. Todd attained his greatest eminence. Some years before his 

 death he had risen to the foremost rank in medical practice, and 

 his clinical visits and lectures were assiduously attended by many 

 devoted pupils. A selection of these lectures was published in 

 three successive volumes. The last of these, completed only im- 

 mediately before his death, contains an exposition of his views on 

 the nature and treatment of acute inflammatory diseases, a sub- 

 ject on which medical opinion has, from time to time, fluctuated 

 between two extremes. Considering the zeal with which he in- 

 'culcated his views and the boldness with which he exemplified them 

 in actual practice, as well as his eminent and influential position, 

 Dr. Todd may be said to have taken the lead among those who 



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