Isaac Aaron (1804–1877) was an English-born physician who rose to prominence combating

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outbreaks around his city of birth,

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, during the 1830s. Instrumental in setting up a Central Board of Health for the area, and a member of the Society of Apothecaries and the

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, Aaron was considered posthumously as "one of the outstanding professional figures of his time". After a decade of political and medical activity in England, he sailed to Australia and took up residency in

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. He was editor of the '' New South Wales Medical Gazette'' and director, and later owner, of the ''

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''. He worked to reform medical practices in Australian hospitals, and was secretary of the

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. A man of faith, he was a leading

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and president of Sydney's Unitarian Church.

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;Notes ;Sources * * 1804 births 1877 deaths People from Birmingham, West Midlands 19th-century English medical doctors English emigrants to colonial Australia {{England-med-bio-stub