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John Hughes Bennett

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Professor John Hughes Bennett MD Edin. Hon LLD Edin. FRCP Edin. FRSE 1812-1875 An outstanding physician, physiologist, pathologist and great teacher who in 1845 was the first to identify the disease leukaemia.

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