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See also:BENNETT, See also:JOHN See also:HUGHES (1812–1875) , See also:English physician and pathologist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 31st of See also:August 1812. He was educated at See also:Exeter, and being destined for the medical profession was articled to a surgeon in See also:Maidstone. In 1833 he began his studies at See also:Edinburgh, and in 1837 graduated with the highest honours. During the next four years he studied in See also:Paris and See also:Germany, and on his return to Edinburgh in 1841 published a See also:Treatise on See also:Cod-See also:liver Oil as a Therapeutic See also:Agent. In the same See also:year he began to lecture as an extra-academical teacher on See also:histology, See also:drawing See also:attention to the importance of the See also:microscope in the investigation of disease; and as physician to the Royal Dispensary he instituted courses of " polyclinical See also:medicine." In 1843 he was appointed See also:professor of the institutes of medicine at Edinburgh, and performed the duties of that See also:chair with See also:great See also:energy till incapacitated by failing See also:health. He resigned in 1874. In August 1875 he was able to be See also:present at the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the See also:British Medical Association in Edinburgh, on which occasion he received the degree of LL.D., but the fatigue he then underwent brought on a relapse, and he was compelled to have the operation of lithotomy performed. He sank rapidly and died on the 25th of See also:September at See also:Norwich. His publications were very numerousincluding Lectures on Clinical Medicine (1850–1856), which in second and subsequent See also:editions were called Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, and were translated into various See also:languages, including See also:Russian and See also:Hindu; Leucocythaemia (1852), the first recorded cure of which was published by him in 1845; Outlines of See also:Physiology (1858), reprinted from the 8th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica; See also:Pathology and Treatment of Pulmonary See also:Tuberculosis (1853); Textbook of Physiology (1871–1872).
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