Barlow, Thomas (1845–1945)

English physician and authority on children's diseases. He worked at several London hospitals, including the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, and also held royal appointments, such as personal physician to King George V. Barlow was the first to distinguish between tuberculosis and simple meningitis, and between rickets and infantile scurvy.

Barlow was born at Edgworth, Lancashire, and graduated first in arts, then in medicine at London University. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1880, and rose to become President of the International Medical Congress in 1913. He was created a baronet in 1900. His name is recalled in the condition known as ‘Barlow's disease’ (infantile scurvy).