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John Haygarth, FRS: A Physician of the Enlightenment (1740-1827) (Memoir 254)
John Haygarth, FRS

 
Our Price: $60.00
By Christopher Booth
Year: 2005
Pages: 169
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 0871692546

Product Code: 0871692546

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Memoir 254
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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