Lauder Brunton: Difference between revisions

{{shortShort description|British physician (1844–1916)}}

| name = Sir Lauder Brunton

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|Bt|FRS|size=100%}}

| image = Lauder Brunton 1881.jpg

| caption = Brunton in 1881

| birth_date = 14 March 1844

| birth_place = [[Roxburgh]], Scotland

| death_date = 16 September 1916 (aged 72)

| death_place = [[London]], England

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| nationality = Scottish

| other_names = Jalaluddin = Lauder Brunton

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| known_for = Treatment of [[angina pectoris]]

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| prizes = [[Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh]] {{small|(1915)}}

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| spouse = {{marriage|Louisa Jane Stopford|1879|1909|reason=died}}

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He left Edinburgh to work in Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany, returning to [[University College, London]], and while there he was selected for a position at [[St. Bartholomew's Hospital]]. Brunton's clinical use of [[amyl nitrite]] to treat [[Angina pectoris|angina]] was inspired by earlier work with the same reagent by [[Arthur Gamgee]] and [[Benjamin Ward Richardson]]. Brunton reasoned that the pain and discomfort of angina could be reduced by administering amyl nitrite to open the coronary arteries of patients. In 1874, Brunton was made a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]. He delivered the [[Goulstonian Lecture]] in 1877 on "Pharmacology and Therapeutics" and the [[Croonian Lecture]] in 1889 on "The Chemical structure of Physiological Action", both to the [[Royal College of Physicians]]. He was appointed a [[Knight Bachelor]] in the [[1900 New Year Honours|1900 New Year Honours list]], received the knighthood by [[Queen Victoria]] at [[Osborne House]] on 9 February 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27167 |date=20 February 1900 |page=1169}}</ref> and was made a [[baronet]] in 1908.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28158 |date=14 July 1908 |page=5133}}</ref> In 1915, he was awarded the [[Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh]].

Brunton married Louisa Jane, daughter of [[Edward Stopford (priest)|Edward Stopford]], [[Archdeacon of Meath]], in 1879. She died in 1909. Lauder Brunton later converted to Islam and took up the name '''Jalaluddin Lauder Brunton'''.<ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uz09BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA269|title=Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam|author= Ron Geaves|page=269|isbn=9781847740380|date=2010-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=105vAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT63|title=Why did they become muslims?|author=M. Sıddık Gümüş|year=2008}}</ref>

== Selected workspublications ==

* {{cite book | author = Brunton, ThomasT. Lauder | title = A Textbook of Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Materia Medica | year = 1885 | publisher = Macmillan and Company | location = London }}

* {{cite book | author = Brunton, T. Lauder | title = On Disorders of Digestion, Their Consequences and Treatment | year = 1886 | publisher = Macmillan and Company | location = London | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HVcQAAAAYAAJ }}

* {{cite book | author = Brunton, T. Lauder | title = Therapeutics of the Circulation | edition = 2 | year = 1915 | publisher = Paul E. Hoeber | location = New York | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9k51uT_-ED4C | quote = Lauder Brunton. }}

* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224814/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB6.htm Baronetcy of Brunton and his successors]}}

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