was the first to describe his triad of medical signs for congenital syphilis: notched incisor teeth, labyrinthine deafness, and interstitial keratitis, which was very useful for providing a firm diagnosis long before Treponema pallidum or the Wassermann test were discovered. By contrast, his insistence that leprosy was caused by eating decaying fish was incorrect. He was the founder of the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic; and both in his native town of Selby and at Haslemere, Surrey, he started (about 1890) educational museums for popular instruction in natural history. He published several volumes on his own subjects and was given an Hon. LL.D degree by both the University of Glasgow and University of Cambridge. He received a knighthood in 1908. Hutchinson has his name attached to these entities in medicine: Hutchinson's angina Hutchinson's sign Hutchinson's dehidrosis Hutchinson's disease or senile degeneration of the choroid Hutchinson's facies Hutchinson's melanotic freckle (was previously considered a precancerous spot occurring in old age, now known as melanoma in situ, lentigo maligna type) Hutchinson's mask Hutchinson's melanotic disease Hutchinson's patch (a corneal sign attached to syphilitic keratitis) Hutchinson's prurigo Hutchinson's pupil Hutchinson's teeth (seen in congenital syphilis) Hutchinson's triad Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome After his retirement from active consultative work, he continued to take great interest in the question of leprosy. In one of his few scientific errors, he was firmly convinced that a link existed between getting leprosy and eating salted or rotted fish, even after the pathogenic agent, Mycobacterium leprae, was discovered in 1873. Personal life Hutchinson married Jane Pynsent West in 1856 and they had six sons and four daughters. His son Jonathan (1859–1933) became an ophthalmic surgeon and was elected F.R.C.S. in 1884. He founded Haslemere Educational Museum in 1888. The teacher, writer, and naturalist Margaret Hutchinson was his granddaughter. Hutchinson died on 23 June 1913, in Haslemere, Surrey. References Attribution Further reading R. J. Godlee, ‘Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan (1828–1913)’, rev. W. F. Bynum, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2007 External links Jonathan Hutchinson. WhoNamedIt. Ophthalmology and Eponyms: Jonathan Hutchinson 1828 births 1913 deaths People from Selby English dermatologists British ophthalmologists British leprologists Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital Fellows of the Royal Society