Howard Henry Tooth

Howard Henry Tooth CB CMG (1856–1925) was a British neurologist and one of the discoverers of Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease.

[1] After his university education, Howard Henry Tooth studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, achieving his MD in 1885.

[3] In 1894, he taught a post-graduate course on Cranial Nerves at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic.

Tooth spent quite a period of time in the military, resulting in his being awarded the rank of colonel.

In 1889 he delivered the Goulstonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians on the subject of "Secondary Degeneration of the Spinal Cord".