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Darwin Correspondence Project

Henry Lawson

1840–77

Physician and journal editor. Graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast. Lecturer in histology, St Mary’s Hospital, London. Editor of the Monthly Microscopical Journal, Scientific Opinion, and Popular Science Review. Published on the treatment of neuralgia with injections of morphia, based on his own case.

Sources

Barton 1998, pp. 6 and 16

British Medical Journal, 13 October 1877, p. 550

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