Robert Bentley Todd

Robert Bentley Todd
Robert Bentley Todd
Born9 April 1809
Dublin, Ireland
Died30 January 1860(1860-01-30) (aged 50)
London, England
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin BA,
Pembroke College, Oxford MS, BM, DM
Known forTodd's palsy
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
InstitutionsKing's College London
Royal Society
Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Surgeons

Robert Bentley Todd (9 April 1809 – 30 January 1860) was an Irish-born physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy.