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John Henry Bell MD (1832-1906)

Dr. John Henry Bell first identified arsenic as the cause of the Bradford sweets mass poisoning (1858). This photograph was included in his newspaper obituary and his obituary in the British Medical Journal in 1906. (Source: Anonymous. John Henry Bell MD MRCS. BMJ 1906;2[2386]:735-6. Public domain. Edited by Dr. Douglas J Lanska.)