Charles Creighton
1847–1927
Medical scholar. MA, King’s College, Aberdeen, 1867; MB, Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1871. Surgical registrar, St Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1873; medical registrar, Charing Cross Hospital, London, 1874. Associated with the Brown Animal Institution, London, 1874–8. Demonstrator of anatomy, Cambridge, 1876–81. Editor of the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 1879. Secretary of the Cambridge Medical Society, 1880. Moved to London and became an independent scholar in 1881. Translated from German August Hirsch’s Handbook of geographical and historical pathology (1883–6). In 1888, ostracised by the medical profession when he wrote a controversial article on vaccination for the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; the article was critical of Edward Jenner. Published articles on breast tumours, tuberculosis, and cancer, and History of epidemics (1894).
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
