Henry Burton (physician)

Henry Burton
MD, ML, MD, BS, FRCP
Henry Burton MD, ML, MD, BS, FRCP
Born	27 February 1799
Died	10 August 1849
Nationality	British
Education	Tonbridge School
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, St Bartholomew's Hospital
Occupation(s)	Physician, chemist
Known for	Burton line
Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Poulton (m. 1826)
Parents	James Burton (property developer) (father); Elizabeth Westley (1761 – 1837) (mother);
Relatives	Decimus Burton (brother); William Ford Burton (brother); James Burton (Egyptologist) (brother); Henry Marley Burton (nephew); Thomas Chandler Haliburton (cousin); Robert Grant Haliburton (cousin); Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton (cousin);

Henry Burton FRCP (27 February 1799 – 10 August 1849) was a British physician and chemist, who is famous for his identification of blue discolouration of the gums, the eponymous Burton line, as a symptom of lead poisoning.