The physician and gastroenterologist JH Baron’s stated hobby was “looking”; his quizzical gaze perused scientific data, paintings, buildings and committee members alike. Many were found wanting. Hugh, who has died aged 83, made the stomach his prime interest, and developed, from Kay’s 1953 histamine test of gastric secretion, the concept of peak acid output, first proposed in an article in the journal Gut in 1963. He suggested that, when gastric acid secretion is below 15 mmol/hour, duodenal ulcers do not occur, or will heal. This led to international recognition and in 1978 Hugh published Clinical Tests of Gastric Secretion.
Son of Edward and Dolly, he was born in Tottenham, north London, where his father was a GP, and educated at University College school, Queen’s College, Oxford, and the Middesex Hospital Medical School. He made a crucial move in 1968 to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, working, unusually for a physician, in the surgical department. His clinical practice from 1971 until 1994 was at St Charles’ hospital, then at St Mary’s hospital, London.
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