biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1793–1860)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Longbenton, Northumberland, NE England, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, settled in London, and in 1837 became physician to Guy's Hospital. His chief researches were on pneumonia, tuberculosis, and especially on the disease of the adrenal glands now known as Addison's disease. |
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