biography
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| lived:
| (1795–1862)
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| biography:
| Surgeon, the founder and first editor of The Lancet (1823), born in Membury, Devon, SW England, UK. Through this weekly medical paper he denounced abuses in medical practice, and made exposures which led to the Adulteration of Food and Drink Act (1860). He was MP for Finsbury (1835–52), and coroner from 1839, procuring reforms for coroners' courts. |
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