J.L.W. Thudichum papers, 1855-1942.

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J.L.W. Thudichum papers, 1855-1942.

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Contains correspondence, lectures, and articles. Letters to Thudichum are chiefly hectographic copies. Correspondents include Arthur Gamges, Justus von Liebig, Richard Owen, Eduard F.W. Plueger, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, John Ruskin, and Rudolf Virchow. Includes file of letter to Dr. Irvine H. Page from members of the Thudichum family. The lectures and articles pertain to the history of beer and wine; the production, treatment and use of wine; Cape of Good Hope wines; a vitacultural experiment in Wales; natural philosophy; and omichmyl oxyde. Thudichum is considered a founder of neurochemistry.

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Thudichum, J.L.W. (John Louis William), 1829-1901

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Born in Germany, Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum moved to London in 1853, where he practiced as a laryngologist. He was also interested in chemical research, initially of urine and bile, later of the human brain. Thudichum lectured at St. Thomas's Hospital in London and was the first director of its laboratory of chemistry and pathology(1865-71). Among his writings are A treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain (1884) A treatise on wines (1896). He was an early public health advocate a...