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James Campbell Todd
1874–1928
A physician and pathologist, he wrote one of the early practical guides to laboratory diagnosis for doctors and medical students. His work helped bring careful clinical testing into everyday medical practice.
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A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis
by James Campbell Todd
About the author
Born in 1874, James Campbell Todd was an American physician, pathologist, and medical writer whose best-known book, Clinical Diagnosis: A Manual of Laboratory Methods, became a widely used reference. Early editions describe him as an associate professor of pathology at the Denver and Gross College of Medicine and as a hospital pathologist and clinical microscopist in Denver.
Contemporary notices report that he studied at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, did postgraduate work in pathology, and later served as resident physician at Allegheny General Hospital. By the early 20th century he had built a reputation in clinical pathology, and later sources connected him with the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Todd died in Boulder, Colorado, on January 6, 1928. Today he is remembered chiefly for writing clear, practical medical manuals that helped generations of physicians use laboratory methods more confidently in diagnosis.