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Frederick Eustace Batten (29 September 1865 – 27 July 1918) was an English
Frederick Eustace Batten (www.whonamedit.com)
1865 births 1918 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital 20th-century English medical doctors Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge {{England-med-bio-stub
Frederick Eustace Batten (29 September 1865 – 27 July 1918) was an English neurologist
Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...
and pediatrician
Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many of their youth ...
who has been referred to as the "father of pediatric neurology".
Biography
Frederick Batten was born on 29 September 1865 in Plymouth. He attendedWestminster School
Westminster School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the Norman Conquest, as do ...
and Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...
, and graduated in medicine in 1891 from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, commonly known as Barts or BL, is a medical and dental school in London, England. The school is part of Queen Mary University of London, a constituent college of the federal University of L ...
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
The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of ph ...
in 1901, and was elected dean in 1908. Batten disease was named after him after he first described it in 1903.
Batten died from infection after a routine prostatectomy
Prostatectomy (from the Ancient Greek language, Greek , "prostate" and , "excision") is the surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland. This operation is done for benignity, benign conditions that cause urinary retention, as well as ...
.
Eponym
* Batten diseaseFurther reading
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Frederick Eustace Batten (www.whonamedit.com)
1865 births 1918 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital 20th-century English medical doctors Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge {{England-med-bio-stub