The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Hudson, Erasmus Darwin

HUDSON, Erasmus Darwin, American physician: b. Northampton, Mass., 1843; d. New York, 1887. In 1864 he was graduated at the College of the City of New York and three years later at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He entered Bellevue Hospital as surgeon immediately thereafter, and in 1869-70 was appointed health officer of New York city. Subsequently he was professor of principles and practise of medicine at the Woman's Medical College (1872-82), and from the last-named year until his death was professor of general medicine and diseases of the chest at the New York Polyclinic. His works include ‘Report of Pulse and Respiration of Infants’ (in Eliot's Obstetric Clinic, 1872); ‘Doctors, Hygiene and Therapeutics’ (1877); ‘Methods of Examining Weak Chests’ (1885); ‘Limitations of the Diagnosis of Malaria’ (1885); ‘Home Treatment of Consumptives’ (1886); ‘Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases’ (1887).