Thomas Clifford Allbutt

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Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (July 20, 1836 – February 22, 1925) was a British physician.

Born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, he was the son of Thomas Allbutt, Vicar of Dewsbury and Susan Wooler. Sir Thomas had no children.

Allbutt invented the clinical thermometer. Before his invention patients were asked to hold a thermometer in their hands and took about an hour to take an acceptable measurement of their body temperature.

He died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

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