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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Council li;i,(l coiuc lo Llic ('.(MicliLsioii iJiuL llicrc wmh at llie thiie no one; in Leeds e]i<!;i])le to succeed liini as a nicnilx'i- of iJic Council. Tliey accoi'(lin<_dy requested X'^w rycnionl Suiilli aiid Dr. Heatoii In uiidcj'takc tlie lectures on MateriaMedi('a between them, in addition to iJicir olhcr duties. Thus tlie young doctor, wliose work thougli unreniunerativc was already pressing heavily upon liim, found himself saddled during this year with the preparation of fifty additional lectures. It may be mentioned that in preparing tlie lectures on Botany he found tliat lie liad himself to provide botli plants and diagrams for tlieir illustration—a (hity whicli added not a little botli to the expense and the laboriousness of his task. That his zeal for professional work was not damped by any of these things is proved by the fact that in 184G he successfully applied for the post of physician to the House of Eecovery, an admirable institution designed for the relief of the victims of fever and other infectious complaints. Such a post was not without its serious perils, as Dr. Heaton was himself before long to experience. In 1847 he had suffered considerably in his health in consequence of a poisoned wound caused whilst dissecting a tortoise. In October of that year he was still suffering from this wound. lie was at the same time very busily engaged, both in preparing an article for the ' British Quarterly Review,' to which he had become a con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
