biography
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| lived:
| (1899–1983)
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| biography:
| British physician. A general practitioner in Eastbourne, SE England, UK, he was tried in March 1957 for the murder of one of his patients, Edith Alice Morrell. Morrell had died in mysterious circumstances, following long courses of heroin and morphine prescribed by Adams, who was a beneficiary of her will. Although found not guilty, he was struck off the Medical Register, but reinstated in 1961. While some believed he had killed patients for personal gain, others have argued that he was practising a form of euthanasia. |
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