Robert Bentley Todd

Irish physician (1809-1860) · Doctors · Died at 50

Robert Bentley Todd was an Irish-born physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy.

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Pembroke Chapel Quad.

Statue of Robert Bentley Todd at King's College Hospital

A meeting of the College of Physicians in the early 19th century

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society

Croonian Medal and Lecture

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Goulstonian Lectures

About this person

Doctors born in the 1800s 6

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Louis Stromeyer41.9 of 100 Edward Cronin40.4 of 100

Carl Heinrich 'Bipontinus' Schultz42.2 of 100 Francis Kiernan39.8 of 100