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  • John Coakley Lettsom

    JMS PearceHull, England John Coakley Lettsom (aka Lettsome) MD FRCP Ed., FRS (1744–1815) is remembered as the physician who founded The Medical Society of London and for his monograph Reflections on the General Treatment and Cure of Fevers. He was born on Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in 1744. He was sent at…