Robert Bentley Todd
(1809–1860)

Irish-born physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy. He was the younger brother of noted writer and minister James Henthorn Todd.

Robert Bentley Todd

Works

  • Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology (1835–1859)
  • Gulstonian Lectures on the Physiology of the Stomach (1839)
  • Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man (1843–1856, with W. Bowman)
  • Practical Remarks on Gout, Rheumatic Fever, and Chronic Rheumatism of the Joints (1843) (Croonian Lecture 1843)
  • Description and Physiological Anatomy of the Brain, Spinal Cord, and Ganglions (1845)
  • Lumleian Lectures on the Pathology and Treatment of Delirium and Coma (1850)


Works about Todd

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