Bennett, JOHN HUGHES

Bennett, JOHN HUGHES, an eminent physician, born in London, August 31, 1812, graduated at Edinburgh in 1837, and after four years' study in Paris and Germany, settled in Edinburgh as an extra-mural lecturer. A work published in 1841, in which he recommended cod-liver oil in all consumptive diseases, first brought him into notice, and in 1848 he was made professor of the Institutes of Medicine in Edinburgh University—a post which he held until 1874. His health gave way in 1871, and most of his last years were spent abroad. He died at Norwich, September 25, 1875. His original investigations are embodied in numerous treatises and articles in medical journals, and in his Text-book of Physiology (Edin. 1870-71).