Dr William Budd by Michael Dunnill
Most people walk past the plaque on 89 Park Street, Bristol, without giving a second thought to the man it commemorates. And yet, Dr William Budd, who was a true pioneer and was to become Bristol's most distinguished physician, made an immense contribution to medicine and to the life of the city. Born in Devon, he moved to Bristol in 1841, working at St Peter's Hospital and the Infirmary where he cared for patients during typhoid and cholera epidemics, for which there was no cure. He was able to identify how these deadly diseases spread, seeing at first hand the insanitary hovels of Lewins Mead and elsewhere in the city, and realising the need for preventive measures. An early director of the Bristol Waterworks Company, William Budd was the moving force behind ensuring a clean water supply, one of the first essentials in combating water-born disease. Several major epidemics of infection diseases swept through nineteenth-century Britain, killing indiscriminately and showing no respect for age or social class. For years, Budd fought to change misguided orthodoxies in the medical professional which denied the contagious nature of these killer diseases. When the 1866 cholera epidemic reached Bristol, much reduced death figures showed that he had largely won the grim fight to improve the nation's health.
Michael Dunnill was born in Bristol, attended the Grammar School and qualified in medicine at Bristol University. After junior appointments in Bristol, Oxford and at Columbia University, New York, he was appointed consultant pathologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University Lecturer in Pathology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. As well as books on pulmonary and renal pathology he is the author of The Plato of Praed Street, the life and times of Almroth Wright. Now an Emeritus Fellow he spends his time studying medical history.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904537489 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904537480 |
| Title | Dr William Budd |
| Author | Michael Dunnill |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Redcliffe Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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