William Heberden

William Heberden (August 1710 - May 17th 1801), doctor English born with London with which one owes the first clinical description of the Angina pectoris in 1768.

It began its education with St Savior's Grammar School de Southwark, London then was sent to the St John' S College (one of the 31 colleges of the university of Cambridge) in 1724, it received its diploma for the occupation of doctor of medicine in 1739. It started by exerting in Cambridge during ten years, then in London starting from 1748. In 1761, it was named at the court of the king Georges III as a personal doctor of the queen.

He was elected with the Royal College off Physicians of London in 1746, with the Royal Society in 1749 and at the royal company of medicine of Paris in 1778.

Heberden is regarded as one of the most eminent English doctor of the eighteenth century. It had taken the practice to consign the context and the symptoms of its patients to try later to draw some the more general conclusions. Its more important contribution is the first clinical description of the angina pectoris. It also gave its name has a variety of nodule met in the ostéoarthrites, the nodules of Heberden which are located at the level of the last phalangeal articulations.

He married twice, the first time in 1752 with Elizabeth Martin which will give him a son, Thomas, the second time with Mary Wollaston, after the death of his first wife in 1754, with which he will have eight children of which only two will survive, a William son and a Mary girl.

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