Respiratory tract diseases

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Williams, Charles James Blasius

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  • 1805-1889

Born in the Hungerford almshouse in Wiltshire, where his father, Rev David Williams, was a warden. His mother was the daughter of a Monmouthshire surgeon.

Educated at the University of Edinburgh, 1820. MD 1824. Travelled to Paris in 1825-1827, where he drew and studied medicine. Became a pioneer in auscultation and the use of stethoscope; he became a specialist in the diseases of the chest. Medical practice at Half Moon Street; later at Cavendish Square and Upper Brook Street. Fellow of the Royal Society 1835. Lecturer in anatomy at St George’s in 1836 on diseases of the chest. Professor of medicine and physician to University College London 1839. Fellow of the College of Physicians in London; censor and Lumleian lecturer. One of the founders and a supporter of the Consumption Hospital, Brompton. First president of the Pathological Society in 1846. President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. Physician extraordinary to the queen in 1874.

Married Harriet Williams Jenkins of Chepstow in 1830. Retired to Cannes, France in 1875. Died 24 Mar 1889 at Cannes.