{{short description|American physiologist (1865 – 1924)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} thumb|Theodore Hough
'''Theodore Hough'''{{pron}} (1865–1924) was an American physician who first described delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) in 1902.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5JZMRkU7EkC|title=Sarcopenia – Age-Related Muscle Wasting and Weakness: Mechanisms and Treatments|first=Gordon S.|last=Lynch|date=30 November 2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-90-481-9713-2 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Biography== Hough was born in Virginia in 1865. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. After graduation, he was employed as a professor at MIT where he worked with William T. Sedgwick. In 1907, he became the chair of physiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and became dean in 1916.<ref name=NEJM>{{cite journal|journal=Boston Med Surg J|title=Theodore Hough, M.D.|date=December 11, 1924|volume=191 |issue=24 |page=1145 |doi=10.1056/nejm192412111912422}}</ref> In 1922, he was president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.<ref name=NEJM/>
==Selected publications== *[https://archive.org/details/humanmechanismit00hougrich ''The Human Mechanism: Its Physiology and Hygiene and the Sanitation of its Surroundings''] (with William Thompson Sedgwick, 1906) *[https://archive.org/details/elementsofhygien00hougrich/page/n4/mode/2up ''Elements of Hygiene and Sanitation''] (with William Thompson Sedgwick, 1918)
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