Editing Thomas Addison (section)

{{short description|English physician and scientist}}
{{distinguish|Thomas Edison|Tom Addison}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Thomas Addison
| honorific_suffix   = [[Royal Medical Society|RMS]]
| image              = File:Thomas Addison2.jpg
| caption            = 
| birth_date         = April 1795
| birth_place        = [[Longbenton]], [[Northumberland]], England
| death_date         = {{d-da|29 June 1860|April 1795}}
| death_place        = [[Brighton]], [[Sussex]], England
| resting_place      = [[Lanercost Priory]]
| resting_place_coordinates = 
| occupation         = Physician
| alma_mater         = [[University of Edinburgh Medical School|University of Edinburgh]]
| known_for          = [[Addison's Disease]], [[Pernicious anemia]]
| spouse             = 
| signature          = Thomas Addison Signature.svg
| signature_size     = 150px
| children           = 
}}
'''Thomas Addison''' (April 1795{{spaced ndash}}29 June 1860) was an English physician and medical researcher. He is traditionally regarded as one of the "great men" of [[Guy's Hospital]] in London.

Thomas Addison began his career at Guy's Hospital in 1817, eventually becoming a full physician in 1837. He was a noted and respected lecturer and diagnostician. He experienced episodes of [[mental depression]] throughout his life, culminating in his suicide in 1860.

Addison's legacy includes the description of conditions such as [[Addison's disease]] (a degenerative disease of the adrenal glands), and [[pernicious anemia]], a hematological disorder later found to be caused by failure to absorb [[vitamin B12|vitamin B<sub>12</sub>]].