page_title: William Budd
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: William Budd / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of William Budd from an original lithograph published by A.B. Black, 1862, in the Royal Society of Medicine
context_page_description: William Budd was an English physician and epidemiologist known for recognizing that infectious diseases were contagious. He recognized that the "poisons" involved in infectious diseases multiplied in the intestines of the sick, were present in their leaks, and could then be transmitted to the healthy through their consumption of contaminated water.
  He particularly understood this about the transmission of cholera and typhoid fever.
context_section_description: William Budd was born in 1811 at North Tawton, Devon to an English surgeon, Samuel Budd, and his wife Catherine Wreford. He graduated MBChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1838. Six of his nine brothers, including George Budd, also went into medicine.
caption: Portrait of a young William Budd
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