Jonathan Hutchinson: Life and Letters
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To the present generation of doctors the name of Jonathan Hutchinson is associated with certain signs of syphilis, but there was "hardly any branch of medicine to which he did not make any contribution. For more than 20 years he was surgeon to London Hospital, and he was also on the staff of hospitals for chest, skin and eye diseases. It was an extraordinarily prolific period during which he made original researches on such a variety of diseases that he came to be known
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