Richard Bright (physician)
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{{Infobox Person
|name=Richard Bright
|image=Richard_Bright.gif
|caption=Richard Bright
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|birth_date=[[September 28]][[1789]]
|birth_place= [[Bristol]]
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|death_date=[[December 16]][[1858]]
|death_place=[[London]]
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'''Richard Bright''' ([[September 28]][[1789]] – [[December 16]][[1858]]) was an [[England|English]] [[physician]] and early pioneer in the research of [[Nephrology|kidney disease]].
He was born in [[Bristol]], [[Gloucestershire (traditional)|Gloucestershire]], the third son of Sarah and Richard Bright Sr., a wealthy merchant and banker. Bright Sr. shared his interest in science with his son,
encouraging him to consider it as a career. In 1808, Bright Jr. joined the [[University of Edinburgh]] to study philosophy, economics and mathematics, but switched to medicine the following year. In 1810, he accompanied Sir [[George Mackenzie]] on a summer expedition to [[Iceland]] where he conducted [[natural history|naturalist]] studies. Bright then continued his medical studies at [[Guy's Hospital]] in [[London]] and in September 1813 returned to [[Edinburgh]] to be granted his [[Doctor of Medicine|medical doctorate]]. His [[thesis]] was ''De erysipelate contagioso'' (''On contagious [[erysipelas]]'').
During the 1820s and 1830s Bright again worked at Guy's Hospital, teaching, practising and researching medicine. There he worked alongside two other celebrated medical pioneers, [[Thomas Addison]] and [[Thomas Hodgkin]]. His research into the causes and [[symptom]]s of kidney disease led to his identifying what became known as [[Bright's disease]]. For this, he is considered the "[[People known as the father or mother of something#B|father]] of [[nephrology]]".
Bright had a special affection for Hungary and in 1815 he lived in Festetics Castle in Kesztheley, where there is a large plaque: “To the memory of the English physician scientist and traveller who was one of the pioneers in the accurate description of Lake Balaton.”
On [[December 11]][[1858]], Bright became severely ill due to complications of [[heart disease]] and was unable to recover. He died in London aged 69.
Bright had two sons. The youngest also became a physician; the other, [[James Franck Bright]], a [[historian]].
==References==
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|month=Dec
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*{{cite journal
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|year=1989
|month=Aug
|title=Dr Richard Bright--a man of many parts. His bicentenary year--1789-1858
|journal=[[Bristol medico-chirurgical journal (1963)]]
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|year=1981
|month=Apr
|title=The life, work, and geological collections of Richard Bright, M.D. (1789-1858); with a note on the collections of other members of the family
|journal=[[Archives of natural history]]
|volume=10
|issue=1
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|year=1976
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|title=The man behind the name: Richard Bright: 1789-1858
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|year=1976
|month=Apr
|title=Pioneers in medicine: Richard Bright (1789-1858)
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|issue=18
|pages=54
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|year=1971
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|title=Richard Bright (1789-1858) and apoplexy
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|last=Kinder
|first=C H
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|year=1966
|month=Nov
|title=Richard Bright (1789-1858)
|journal=[[Investigative urology]]
|volume=4
|issue=3
|pages=288–90
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*{{cite journal
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|last=STRIKER
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|year=1963
|month=Oct
|title=Richard Bright 1789-1858 (Garrison): Select Reports Of Medical Cases: Cases Illustrative Of Some Of The Appearances Observable On The Examination Of Diseases Terminating In Dropsical Effusion
|journal=[[Cincinnati journal of medicine]]
|volume=44
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|pages=426–8
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*{{cite journal
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|year=1955
|month=Jul
|title=Richard Bright (1789-1858)
|journal=[[The Merck report]]
|volume=64
|issue=3
|pages=19
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== External links ==
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1984.html WhoNamedIt biography]
* [http://cdm.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_jmrbr.php?CISOROOT=/jmrbr Images from the John Martin Rare Book Room, University of Iowa]
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