George Budd

George Budd M.D. (23 February 1808 – 14 March 1882) was an English physician, medical writer and academic.

Life He was born at North Tawton, Devon, on 23 February 1808, the third son of Samuel Budd, a surgeon there, and with six brothers entered the medical profession. After education at home, he entered St John's College, Cambridge, 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 M.B., 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. In 1840 he graduated M.D. 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 1845–7. It was followed by Diseases of the Stomach (1855). His report on cases of cholera in the Dreadnought during 1837, written with Busk, and his statistical account of cases collected from the records of the same hospital in the epidemic of 1832, were also standard works, summarised in "Cholera", which Budd contributed to Alexander Tweedie's Library of Practical Medicine, vol. iv.; vol. v. contained his "Scurvy".

Budd published papers and lectures in medical journals, especially the Medical Gazette, including his Gulstonian Lectures (1843) and Croonian Lectures (1847) at the College of Physicians.