Theodore Hough
Theodore Hough (1865–1924) was an American physician who first described delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) in 1902.

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. In 1922, he was president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Selected publications
The Human Mechanism: Its Physiology and Hygiene and the Sanitation of its Surroundings (with William Thompson Sedgwick, 1906)
Elements of Hygiene and Sanitation (with William Thompson Sedgwick, 1918)

References

1924 deaths
1865 births
American physiologists
Hygienists 
University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty
Johns Hopkins University alumni