OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



Dr. Gteoege Budd was born in 1808. He was the third son of 

 Mr. Samuel Budd, surgeon, of North Tawton, in Devonshire, and 

 one of nine brothers, seven of whom have successfully studied and 

 practised medicine. Having feeble health in early life, he was 

 educated at home till he went to Cambridge in 1827. 



In his first year he was at St. John's, afterwards at Caius', and in 

 both colleges he lived a quiet studious life, reading hard, though often 

 interrupted by illness. He was third wrangler in a good year (1831), 

 and was soon elected to a fellowship in his college. He studied medicine 

 at the Middlesex Hospital ; was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in 1836 ; took his degree of M.D. in 1848 ; and soon after became a 

 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His first publication was 

 an ingenious essay on the Stethoscope as an Acoustic Instrument, in 

 the "Medical Gazette" of 1837. It brought him good repute, and 

 in the same year he was appointed Physician to the " Dreadnought " 

 hospital ship, an office which he desired chiefly because it gave better 

 opportunities for thorough pathological study than could, at that 

 time, be found in any but the largest hospitals in London. It was 

 here that, in association with Mr. Busk, he made his researches on 

 Cholera and Scurvy, and collected the greater part of the patholo- 

 gical facts on which he based his later works on the Diseases of the 

 Liver and of ihe Stomach. 



Of the papers on Cholera, the first, in the " Medico- Chirurgical 

 Transactions" (vol. xxi), by himself and Mr. Busk, is a report on 

 cases in the "Dreadnought" during the epidemic of 1837; the 

 second (in vol. xxii) a statistical account of cases collected from the 

 records of the same hospital in 1832. They are among the best 

 writings on the Cholera in this country; and the second, especially, is 

 a good instance of the influence of the teaching of Louis, whose 

 " numerical method," then hardly appreciated, had so great a share 

 in promoting accuracy in medical research. Their chief results are 

 collected in his essay on Cholera in " Tweedie's Library of Practical 

 Medicine " (vol. iv), which also contains (in vol. v) his admirable 

 essay on Scurvy, with Mr. Busk's observations on the condition of the 

 blood in that disease. 



In the same year (1837-8), and in the same Transactions, Dr. Budd 



vol. xxxiv. a 



