Background
He was born at North Tawton, Devon, in February 1808, the third son of Samuel Budd, a surgeon there, and with six brother entered the medical profession.
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George Budd
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In 1840 he graduated Doctor of Medicine
Career
1808–1882) was an English physician, medical writer and academic. After education at home, he entered Street John"s College in 1827, subsequently migrating to Caius College, and becoming fellow of Caius after taking his degree (third wrangler, 1831). Budd pursued medical studies in Paris and at the Middlesex Hospital, London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1836.
In 1837, while still a Bachelor of Medicine, he was appointed physician to the Dreadnought seamen"s hospital ship at Greenwich.
Here with George Busk he researched cholera, scurvy, and the pathology of the stomach and liver. at Cambridge and was elected professor of medicine at King"s College London, and in 1841 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, being censor 1845-1847. In 1863 Budd retired from his medical professorship in King"s College, of which he was then made an honorary fellow, and in 1867, in poor health, he gave up his large practice in London, and retired to Barnstaple.
He died 14 March 1882, aged 74.
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Royal Society.
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