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John Haygarth, Frs: A Physician of the Enlightenment (1740-1827), Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 254)

John Haygarth, Frs: A Physician of the Enlightenment (1740-1827), Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 254)

Booth, Christopher

Hardcover

Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society

Biographies GeneralMedical Reference

ISBN10: 0871692546
ISBN13: 9780871692542
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 2005
Pages: 169
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
An excellent biography of John Haygarth, an important 18th-century physician who is most well known for his visionary plan to eliminate smallpox from Great Britain through the careful practice of inoculation & isolation. Haygarth made many more innovative & far-reaching contributions to medicine & to philanthropy. He became a physician in Chester in 1767. There he introduced separate wards in the Chester Infirmary where patients with fever could be isolated & cared for. It was the stimulus for the development of the fever hospitals of 19th cent. England. He also played a major role in the foundation of the Bath Provident Institution for savings, a model for the savings-bank movement in England. Black & white illustrations.

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