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WHEN the history of modern medicine comes to be written it is certain that Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, who died in his eighty-fifth year at Haslemere on June 23, will occupy a more prominent position than that usually assigned to him by his contemporaries. He had the misfortune to be at work when Pasteur and Lister opened up new, attractive, and practical fields of research, carrying with them all the eager intellects of a younger generation, and leaving the subject of this notice to explore the inexhaustible fields of clinical medicine. From the year 1844, when he was apprenticed to Dr. Caleb Williams, of York, at the age of sixteen, until the day of his death, within a month of finishing his eighty-fifth year, he never ceased to study the manifestations of health and disease, and to place his observations and inferences on record.
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Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S. . Nature 91, 429 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091429a0
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