Henry Hugh Clutton

Henry Hugh Clutton

Henry Hugh Clutton (1850 - 1909) was a London surgeon who described painless symmetrical hydrarthrosis (an accumulation of water in the cavity of a joint), especially of the knee joints: seen in hereditary syphilis. The ailment is called "Clutton's joints."

He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

* Source: "1938 American Illustrated Medical Dictionary" by W. A. Newman Dorland.


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