Thomas Caspar Gilchrist

Thomas Caspar Gilchrist
Born	15 June 1862
Died	14 November 1927
Known for	Gilchrist's disease
Medical career
Profession	Physician
Institutions	University of Maryland Johns Hopkins Hospital

Thomas Caspar Gilchrist (15 June 1862 – 14 November 1927), was professor of dermatology at the University of Maryland before taking up the same position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He wrote on acne, erysipelas, X-ray dermatitis, porokeratosis, sarcoma of skin, and fatty atrophy. The fungal infection Gilchrist's disease, more commonly known as blastomycosis, is named for him after he first mistook it as a protozoan disease before correctly identifying it as a fungal in origin. The organism that causes it, blastomyces dermatitidis was subsequently described by him and William Royal Stokes back in 1894.