HUTCHINSON, SIR JONATHAN Eng lish surgeon and pathologist, was born on July 23, 1828, at Selby, Yorkshire, his parents belonging to the Society of Friends. He entered St. Bartholomew's hospital, and rapidly gained reputation as a skilful operator and a scientific enquirer. He was professor of surgery and pathology at the College of Surgeons from 1877 to 5882. In 1889 he was president of the Royal College of Surgeons and was at different times president of various other profes sional organizations. His lectures on neuro-pathogenesis, gout, leprosy, diseases of the tongue, etc., were full of original obser vation; but his principal work was connected with the study of syphilis, on which he put forward the view that it was a specific fever. He was the founder of the London Polyclinic or Post graduate School of Medicine and the promoter of the New Syden ham Society for the publication of translations of important foreign medical treatises at a moderate cost. Both in his native town of Selby and at Haslemere, Surrey, he started (about 1890) educational museums for popular instruction in natural history. He published several volumes on his own subjects, and was edi tor of the quarterly Archives of Surgery. His book, Leprosy and Fisheating (1906) exposed many popular errors, though his con clusion regarding a definite connection between this disease and the eating of salted fish has not been generally accepted.
He received a knighthood in 1908, and died at Haslemere, Surrey, on June 26, 1913.