Henry Gawen Sutton was an English

England

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 physician. He was born in Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough

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 and obtained his medical training at Middlesbrough but qualified at University College London

University College London

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 and practised in London for the rest of his life, initially as a general practitioner

General practitioner

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 but later, after gaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians

Royal College of Physicians

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, as a physician. He worked at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest

London Chest Hospital

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, the London Hospital

Royal London Hospital

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, and consulted at Poplar Hospital. He died of pneumonia

Pneumonia

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 after influenza

Influenza

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 aged 55.

He lent his name to the now outdated term "Gull-Sutton disease", described together with William Gull, to atherosclerotic chronic kidney disease. He also made contributions to the understanding of rheumatic fever

Rheumatic fever

Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that occurs following a Streptococcus pyogenes infection, such as strep throat or scarlet fever. Believed to be caused by antibody cross-reactivity that can involve the heart, joints, skin, and brain, the illness typically develops two to three weeks after...

 and is credited with an early description of hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler-Weber disease).

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