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Michael Underwood (29 September 1737 – 14 March 1820) was an English physician and surgeon, born in West Molesey in Surrey. He is a relevant figure in the history of medicine and pediatrics for having given the first known description of several childhood diseases, infantile paralysis and polio included.
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Underwood was physician to the British Lying-in hospital, and physician to the princess of Wales, whom he attended at the birth of the princess Charlotte. He died at Knightsbridge March 14, 1820, aged eighty-four, being the last surviving Licentiate in Midwifery of the College.
Underwood was the first physician-accoucheur to be appointed to the Royal College of Physicians in London. The same year, 1784, he published a textbook which did much to establish paediatrics as an emerging discipline in its own right.
- P M Dunn
- 2006
Oct 1, 2018 · Michael Underwood (1736 – 1820) October 1, 2018. The Molesey Physician who defined Polio. Michael Underwood was born in West Molesey of respectable parents on the 29 September 1737. He received a good education, first at West Molesey School and then at Kensington in London.
Sep 25, 2015 · The disease was given its first clinical description in 1789 by the British physician Michael Underwood, and recognised as a condition by Jakob Heine in 1840.
In 1784, after receiving his M.D. from a Scottish University, he was elected as a member of the Royal College of Physicians as a licentiate in midwifery. In 1784, he published A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with General Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth .
British physician Dr Michael Underwood attempts the first-known clinical description of polio called “debility of the lower extremities” 1840 In Germany, Dr Jacob von Heine conducts the first systemcatic investigation of polio and develops the theory that the disease may be contagious.
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