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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![Henceforvv;)I'd, in tJiis rccoi'd of liis life win] work, wc sliiill Ii;iv(' 1,0 (leal with Dr. Ileaton as a leading public, niiiii ill a great provincial town. This, as Jiaa been intimated in tlic introductory remarks, is after all the aspect of liis life which has most of value and interest for the general reader. In lii.s own home he was beloved for a rare combination of gifts —gentleness, humour, afTcction ; among the members of his profession he was respected for his solid attain- ments, and for that ' brilliant common sense' which he brought to the study and determination of any difficult problem. But it is not in either of these capacities that his life is best worth being studied by those who were not personally acquainted with liim. It is because he was one of a class of men who are too little known to the world at large, whose work is too often ignored, and whose great though unob- trusive influence on our social life is felt but not acknowledged. The life of a provincial town presents no charms to the cultivated but superficial observer. Biography has nothing to say of the men who have had most to do with the building up of the fortunes of Birmingham and Manchester, of Live pool and Leeds. The local reputation must acquire the stamp of metropolitan approbation before it is thought worthy of notice even by the most thoughtful of social students. Thus it comes to pass that in English literature and Enirlish thought, a a'reat and useful](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
