ALLBUTT, SIR THOMAS CLIFFORD British physician, was born at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, July 20 1836. Educated at St. Peter's school, York, and Caius college, Cambridge, he studied medicine at St. George's hospital, London, and afterwards in Paris, subsequently practising in London and Leeds. He carried out much valuable work on the pathology of the nervous system, and made important investigations of tetanus and hydrophobia, devoting, in addition, considerable time to ophthalmoscopy and inventing the short clinical thermometer.
He was consulting physician to many institutions and from 1889 to 1892 was a commissioner in lunacy. In 1892 he became regius professor of physic at Cambridge, in 1907 was created K.C.B. and in 192o a privy councillor. He died at Cambridge, Feb. 22, 1925.