John Haygarth, Frs, 1740-1827
Subtitle: A Physician of the Enlightenment (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: July 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780871692542
Subjects: General; Medical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography; Clinical Medicine; England; Great Britain; Physicians; history; Biography/Autobiography
Description: "John Haygarth, MD, FRS (1740-1827) hailed from an obscure valley in the Yorkshire dales in the north west of England. Educated at Sedbergh School, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, he became a physician in Chester in 1767. There he introduced separate wards in the Chester Infirmary where patients with fever could be isolated and cared for. It was the stimulus for the development of the fever hospitals of nineteenth century England. Haygarth moved to Bath in 1798, where he continued to write on medical matters. He also played a major role in the foundation of the Bath Provident Institution for Savings, a model for the savings-bank movement in England. John Haygarth died in 1827 at Swainswick near Bath and was buried in the graveyard there."--BOOK JACKET.