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Hutchinson's activity in the cause of scientific surgery and in advancing the study of the natural sciences was unwearying. He published more than 1,200 medical articles and also produced the quarterly Archives of Surgery from 1890 to 1900, being its only contributor. His lectures on neuropathogenesis, gout, leprosy, diseases of the tongue, etc., were full of original observation; but his principal work was connected with the study of syphilis, on which he became the first living authority. He was the first to describe his triad of medical signs for congenital syphilis: notched incisor teeth, labyrinthine deafness and interstitial keratitis, which was very useful for providing a firm diagnosis long before the Treponema pallidum or the Wassermann test were discovered.
He was the founder of the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic; and 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 given an Hon. LL.D degree by both the University of Glasgow and University of Cambridge. He received a knighthood in 1908.
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson has his name attached to the following entities in medicine:
- Hutchinson's angina
- Hutchinson's sign
- Hutchinson's dehidrosis
- Hutchinson's disease or senile degeneration of the choroid
- Hutchinson's facies
- Hutchinson's melanotic freckle (used to be considered a precancerous spot occurring in old age, now known as melanoma in situ, lentigo maligna type)
- Hutchinson's mask
- Hutchinson's melanotic disease
- Hutchinson's patch (a corneal sign attached to syphilitic keratitis)
- Hutchinson's prurigo
- Hutchinson's pupil
- Hutchinson's teeth (seen in congenital syphilis)
- Hutchinson's triad
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
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