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DR. FREDERIC GEORGE DAWTREY DREWITT, the biographer of Jenner and historian of the Chelsea Physic Garden, died at his home in Kensington after a long illness on July 29 at the age of ninety-four. He was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a second class in the School of Natural Science and received his medical training at St. George's Hospital. He qualified in 1876, and after being physician to the Victoria Hospital for Children during 1881-97 and at the West London Hospital during 1882-1902 he gave up medical practice for more congenial pursuits.
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ROLLESTON, J. Dr. F. Dawtrey Drewitt. Nature 150, 228–229 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150228b0
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