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THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH (1788-1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS SOUTHWOOD See also:SMITH (1788-1861)  , See also:English physician and sanitary reformer, was See also:born at Martock, See also:Somerset-See also:shire, on the 21st of See also:December 1788 . 'While a medical student in See also:Edinburgh he took See also:charge of a Unitarian See also:congregation . In 1816 he took his M.D. degree, and began to practice at See also:Yeovil, Somerset, also becoming See also:minister at a See also:chapel in that See also:town, but removed in 182o to See also:London, devoting himself principally to See also:medicine . In 1824 he was appointed physician to the London See also:Fever See also:Hospital, and in .183o published A See also:Treatise on Fever, which was at once accepted as a See also:standard authority on the subject . In this See also:book he established the See also:direct connexion between the impoverishment of the poor and epidemic fever . He was frequently consulted in fever epidemics and on sanitary matters by public authorities, and his reports on See also:quarantine (1845), See also:cholera (185o), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of See also:international importance . He died at See also:Florence on the loth of December 1861 .

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