Frederick Batten
File:Frederick Batten in 1894
Frederick Eustace Batten (29 September 1865 – 27 July 1918) was an English neurologist and pediatrician who has been referred to as the "father of pediatric neurology".
Batten attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] and graduated in medicine in 1891 from St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He worked as a pathologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and as a physician at the National Hospital. He obtained his doctorate in 1895, became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1901, and was elected dean in 1908.
Batten died from infection after a routine prostatectomy.[2]
References
- ↑ "Batten, Frederick Eustace (BTN884FE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Sara Mole; Ruth Williams; Hans Goebel (10 March 2011). The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (Batten Disease). Oxford University Press. pp. 10–. ISBN 978-0-19-959001-8.
Further reading
- E. Chaves-Carballo (1979). "Eponym: Frederick E. Batten: father of pediatric neurology". Southern Medical Journal 71 (11): 1428–1429. doi:10.1097/00007611-197811000-00033. PMID 362542.