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Babington was named after his father's best friend Benjamin Fayle, and the fact that he was born in Guy's Hospital. He married Fayle's daughter Anna Mary, who gave him four children. He also became a director of B. Fayle and Co. (Merchants) together with his sister-in-law (Charlotte Fayle) and his
67:, receiving his doctorate in 1831. He then became Assistant Physician at Guy's but resigned after a disagreement in 1855. During his career, he invented several medical instruments (including the first laryngoscope) and techniques. He performed the first 336: 110:
and served in that capacity to within months of his death. At least one authority refers to the founding as the beginning of modern epidemiology. In 1853–1855 he was president of the
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brother-in-law (Rev. Richard Fayle). Benjamin Guy Babington's son - Stephen Piele Babington also became a director of B.Fayle & Co.
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Benjamin Babington was born on 5 March 1794, the son of the physician and mineralogist
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He wrote several papers, and translated several others, including:
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at Haileybury until 1812, he worked in government at
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William Babington
Charterhouse School
East India Company College
Madras
Guy's Hospital
Cambridge
laryngoscopy
Royal College of Physicians
Henry Morley
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Fellow of the Royal Society
Hunterian Society
Croonian Lecturer
Royal College of Physicians
Epidemiological Society of London
Pathological Society of London
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben



"Babington, Benjamin Guy (1794–1866)"
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