German Sims Woodhead

Sir German Sims Woodhead, KBE (1855–1921) was an English pathologist, born at Huddersfield.^[1] He studied in Huddersfield College, Edinburgh University, and in Berlin and Vienna. In 1899 he was made professor of pathology in Cambridge University.^[2] At various times he was president of the Royal Medical Society, the Royal Microscopical Society, and temperance organizations. He was the first Editor of the Journal of Pathology. His works include:

• Practical Pathology (1883)
• Pathological Mycology (1885), with A. W. Hare
• Bacteria and Their Products (1891)
• Report to the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis (1895)

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External links

• Works by German Sims Woodhead at Project Gutenberg
• Sir German Sims Woodhead
• Michael Worboys, 'Woodhead, Sir German Sims (1855–1921)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.