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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ful and liberal-minded iiili;il)itaiits of om- large pro- vincial towns. It wan to the duties of a citizen that he devoted himself very early after liis establish- ment in ])ractice in Leeds, and it was as the useful, laborious, and public-spirited local worker that he subsequently reached his highest reputation and his widest sphere of usefulness. It will be my duty now to show the various works for the improvement and development of Leeds, and of the inhabitants of the district in which Leeds is situated, in which he took part during his public career. Naturally enough, during his earliest years of pro- fessional work he made that work his chief occupa- tion. I have hinted at some of the conditions which then affected the health of the poor of Leeds. As physician to the Public Dispensary, Dr. Heaton found that he could at once obtain any amount of practice among the very poor. It was not of course remunerative labour, but it had great attractions for him. The boyish fastidiousness which had led him to turn with something hke disgust from the heavy and often unpleasant duties which had belonged to him as the assistant of a general practitioner, had now yielded to the enthusiasm of his calhng. He had mastered the great truth that the first thought of the physician must be for his patient, his last thought for himself; and that no work, however menial or heavy it may be, which is undertaken for](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
