John Haygarth, FRS (1740-1827): A Physician of the Enlightenment - Christopher Charles Booth - Google Books

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John Haygarth, MD, FRS (1740-1827) hailed from an obscure valley in the Yorkshire dales in the north west of England. Educated at Sedbergh School, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, he became a physician in Chester in 1767. There he introduced separate wards in the…