Person Todd; Robert Bentley (1809 - 1860) Todd Robert Bentley 1809 - 1860 British Male Dublin, Ireland 07 or 09 April 1809 His consulting room, Brook Street, London 30 January 1860

26 Parliament Street, London (1837)

Physician Education: Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1829). Incorporated at Pembroke College, Oxford (1832). MA (1832); BM (1833); DM (1836) Career: Moved to London (1831); Lecturer, Aldersgate Street School of Medicine; Professor of Physiology and Anatomy, King's College, London (1836); had a leading role in founding King's College Hospital (1838) and was one of its first physicians, with an interest in neurological disorders, including epilepsy, where he is immortalised in the term 'Todds paralysis'; first to understand the neurophysiology of lead poisoning, and he separated locomotor ataxy from other spinal diseases; resigned as Professor (1853) and devoted himself to private practice Developed an electrical theory of epilepsy which he presented in his Lumleian Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in 1849. Influenced by Michael Faraday (1791-1867) whose electical studies led Todd to the theory that that the brain had battery-like electrical mechanisms of function. Memberships: LRCP (1833); FRCP (1837) Son of Charles Hawkes Todd, surgeon Fellow 08/02/1838 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1860-1862 vol 11 pp xxxii-xxxiv Notes: BR gives birth date as 07 April 1809 Dr H Reyholds 'Todd, Huglings Jackson, and the electrical basis of epilepsy' in The Lancet, Volume 358, 18 August 2001 pp 575-577 JB Lyons 'Todd's Paralysis' in Koehler PJ, Bruyn GW, Pearce JMS editors of 'Neurological eponyms' Oxford University Press 2000 ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'On the pathology and treatment of convulsive diseases' (Lumleian Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians) in London Medical Gazette, 1849 Volume 8 pp 661-671; 724-729; 766-771; 815-822; 837-846 https://pictures.royalsociety.org 7 or 9 Apr 1809 - 30 Jan 1860 NA7567 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 02/10/2023 RS_NET\keithm Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/69712406 2fadad61-f1ff-4a97-974a-42452d583c9c