Samuel Wilks (1824-1911),British physician. 19th-century portrait by Leslie Ward ('Spy') of the British physician and biographer Samuel Wilks. Wilks is best known for recognising ulcerative colitis in 1859,differentiating it from bacterial dysentery. He was a collaborator and biographer of the 'Three Great Men of Guy's',contemporary physicians who worked at Guy's Hospital,London,UK: Dr. Thomas Addison,the discoverer of Addison's disease,Dr. Richard Bright,discoverer of Bright's disease and Dr. Thomas Hodgkin,discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Artwork originally published in Vanity Fair magazine,in 1892 |