Caleb Hillier Parry

Caleb Hillier Parry was an Anglo-Welsh medical doctor, born at Cirencester in 1755 and dead at Bath in 1822. He is credited with the first report of Parry-Romberg syndrome, published in 1815, and with one of the earliest descriptions of exophthalmic goiter, published in 1825. The eldest son of a minister, he attended Warrington Academy, studied medicine at Edinburgh and in London, where he lodged with the obstetric physician Thomas Denman, and graduated MD at Edinburgh in 1778. He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London, helped win a royal charter for the Edinburgh Medical Society as its president, and from 1779 was a physician at Bath General Hospital for the rest of his life. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1800, published Elements of Pathology, and also wrote on the arterial pulse, angina pectoris and rabies, and on sheep farming.