Theodore Hough (1865–1924) was an American physician who first described

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(DOMS) in 1902.

Biography

Hough was born in Virginia in 1865. He received his PhD from

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in 1893. After graduation, he was employed as a professor at

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where he worked with William T. Sedgwick. In 1907, he became the chair of physiology at the

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, and became dean in 1916. In 1922, he was president of the

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Selected publications

''The Human Mechanism: Its Physiology and Hygiene and the Sanitation of its Surroundings''
(with

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, 1906)
''Elements of Hygiene and Sanitation''
(with William Thompson Sedgwick, 1918)

References

1924 deaths 1865 births American physiologists Hygienists University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni {{Academic-bio-stub