Fiona
Thank you for the informative response.
Now the date in this data is interesting for midwives were probably the
major carers of labouring women and new babies but still a male's name is
applied to the contents of the cord between a newborn and it's mother!!
You think he might have named it in honour of his mother , wife or family
midwife??
I must tell my son Thomas!!
Still I remain amazed at the treasure trove of information and informative
people on this list
Thank you
Denise
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Thomas Wharton
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English anatomist, born August 31, 1614, Winston-on-Tees, Durham county;
died November 15, 1673, London.
Associated eponyms:
Wharton's duct
The duct of the submandibular salivary gland opening into the mouth at side
of the frenum linguae.
Wharton's jelly
A gelatinous intercellular substance which is the primitive mucoid
connective tissue of the umbilical cord.
Biography:
Thomas Wharton was the son of John Wharton and Elizabeth Hodson. He studied
at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Oxford, and at Bolton,
Lancashire. A supporter of the republican cause, Wharton obtained his M.D.
at Oxford on May 7, 1647, after the city had surrendered to Cromwell's army.
Thereafter he had a medical practice in London, where he worked with John
Bathurst, Oliver Cromwell's physician and was elected a fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians on December 23, 1650. Wharton served as one of its
censors six times between 1658 and 1673 and gave the Goulstonian lectures in
January 1654. He was very successful and from 1649 was associated with St.
Thomas's Hospital, where he was appointed physician on November 20, 1657.
In 1656 he published, at his own expense, his Latin treatise Adenographia,
"a description of the glands of the entire body," which he dedicated to the
College of Physicians.
Adenographia gave the first thorough account of the glands of the human
body, which Wharton classified as excretory, reductive, and nutrient. He
differentiated the viscera from the glands and explained their relationship,
describing the spleen and pancreas.
Wharton discovered the duct of the submaxillary salivary gland and the jelly
of the umbilical cord, both of which are named for him; he also provided the
first adequate account of the thyroid and gave it that name. He explained
the role of saliva in mastication and digestion but considered that the
function of certain glands, such as the adrenals and the thyroid, was to
restore to the veins certain humors that were not useful to the nerves, and
that one function of the thyroid was "to fill the neck and make it shapely".
Much of Wharton's research was performed on animals: he mentions dissection
of calves, and Izaak Walton published his description of an anglerfish
(Lophius).
Wharton's son Thomas II became a clergyman, but both his grandson George and
great-grandson Thomas III, became prominent London physicians.
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