John Hughes Bennett
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John Hughes Bennett PRCPE FRSE was an English physician, physiologist and pathologist. His main contribution to medicine has been the first description of leukemia as a blood disorder (1845). The first person to describe leukemia as an unknown disease was Alfred François Donné.
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United KingdomCategory
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1812 to 1875 · aged 63
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