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SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SMITH, See also:THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861) , See also:English physician and sanitary reformer, was See also:born at Martock, See also:Somerset-See also:shire, on the 21st of See also:December 1788. 'While a medical student in See also:Edinburgh he took See also:charge of a Unitarian See also:congregation. In 1816 he took his M.D. degree, and began to practice at See also:Yeovil, Somerset, also becoming See also:minister at a See also:chapel in that See also:town, but removed in 182o to See also:London, devoting himself principally to See also:medicine. In 1824 he was appointed physician to the London See also:Fever See also:Hospital, and in .183o published A See also:Treatise on Fever, which was at once accepted as a See also:standard authority on the subject. In this See also:book he established the See also:direct connexion between the impoverishment of the poor and epidemic fever. He was frequently consulted in fever epidemics and on sanitary matters by public authorities, and his reports on See also:quarantine (1845), See also:cholera (185o), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of See also:international importance. He died at See also:Florence on the loth of December 1861.

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