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- 14 June 1876: The family of surgeon Thomas Pridgin Teale encounters a rabid dog in Headingley
- 22 December 1857: With only a small clock planned for Cuthbert Brodrick’s over-budget town hall, Leeds Council absents itself from a talk by Edmund Beckett, designer of the mechanism for Big Ben
- 18 August 1889: Eight survivors of prostate surgery present themselves to a meeting of the BMA in Leeds
- 29 December 1921: On the death of the Huddersfield-born Cambridge professor of pathology, G.S. Woodhead, his colleague Clifford Allbutt recalls his arrival from the north
- 16 February 1909: Clifford Allbutt, supporting George Bernard Shaw’s proposal that medicine be socialised, gives a Yorkshire example of a physician drawn by vocation, not money
- 9 July 1903: Clifford Allbutt, late of Leeds, tells a Bradford sanitary congress to reject the view that (preventive) medicine is antagonistic to the survival of the fittest
- 22 September 1896: Clifford Allbutt on the threat to industry from anti-scientific manufacturers and workers, and colonialism
- 3 June 1917: A mob wrecks and loots Jewish shops and houses in east-central Leeds
- 2 October 1893: Clifford Allbutt, late of Leeds, now a Cambridge professor, explains to Yorkshire College medics why university life is superior to a purely technical education
- 16 February 1886: Clifford Allbutt explains to James Crichton-Browne why three years later he was to trade a lucrative medical consulting career in Leeds for a less well paid Commissionership in Lunacy in London
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