Abstract
Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913) earned the title of the world's most famous general practitioner because of the wide range of specialties in which he excelled. He was President of several Institutes and Societies, including the Royal College of Surgeons (1889), Pathological Society (1879), Medical Society of London (1892), Hunterian Society (1869), Ophthalmological Society of the UK (1883), Neurological Society (1887), Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society (1894–6) and International Dermatology Congress (1896). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882 and was knighted when he was aged 80 years (1908). He was the first to describe so many disorders that they are all entitled to be called Hutchinson's disease:
1858 Hutchinson's teeth 1864 Tobacco Amblyopia 1865 Homer's syndrome Iritis and arthritis Unequal pupils 1869 Sarcoidosis 1870 Cheiropompholyx 1874 Senile Choroidoretinopathy 1879 Nuclear Ophthalmoplegia 1881 Egg allergy 1884 Arsenic skin cancer 1886 Progeria 1887 Acromegaly 1890 Temporal arteritis 1891 Leucoplakia 1897 Pemphigus 1900 Familial exophthalmos