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Chapter 2 of the book "Harold Shipman: Mind Set on Murder: Why Shipman Killed and Killed Again: The True Story" is presented. The chapter focuses on the career of Harold Shipman as a general practitioner in medicine in Hyde and the mysterious deaths of his patients. It highlights his popularity in Hyde and the investigations conducted by British authorities with the help of the people of Hyde who witness the deaths of the patients to find out if Shipman was setting up a modus operandi to murder his patients.

An encyclopedia entry for Charles Warrington Earle, a general physician who was born in Westford, Vermont on April 2, 1845. At sixteen, he joined the U.S. Army and served as the Fifteenth and the Ninety-sixth Regiments Illinois Volunteers. He graduated at the Chicago Medical College in 1870 and had been engaged in general practice concerning children's diseases and obstetrics in Chicago since then.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for Henry H. McCabe, general medical practitioner, of Worthington, Greene country, Indiana who was born in 1834 in Chillicote, Ohio and received his medical degree from Indiana Eclectic Medical College in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1881.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for Stephen J. Young, general medical practitioner, of Terre Haute, Indiana who was born on March 31, 1829 in Cincinnati, Ohio and received his medical degree from Medical College of Ohio in March, 1851.

An encyclopedia entry for William Thomas Goldsmith, a general practitioner who became Police Commissioner and Sanitary Commissioner for Atlanta, Georgia in 1876, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Frank P. Foster, a general practitioner in New York City and a member of different organizations including the American Medical Association, Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York County Medical Society, is presented.

A reference entry is presented on Francis Felix Mendoza, general medical practitioner and surgeon, of Key West in Monroe County, Florida who was born on July 10, 1851 in Guines, Cuba.

A reference entry is presented on John Frederick May, general medical practitioner and surgeon, of Washington City, District of Columbia. He was born on May 19, 1812 and received his medical degree from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois in 1834. He is credited to be one of the first surgeons of the U.S. to amputate at the hipjoint and the first to perform ovariotomy in Washington.

A reference entry is presented for James Brown McGaughey, general medical practitioner and surgeon, of Winoma, Minnesota who was born on December 31, 1842 and received his medical degree from the medical department of the University of Michigan in Michigan in March 1867.

A biography of Harmon Silas Trueman, a medical doctor in Sackville, New Brunswick, is presented. He was born on August 20, 1858 in Point de Bute, Westmoreland County and obtained education at the Mount Allison Academy and College. His achievements included studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, his involvement in military affairs, and having travelled in such countries as France and England. He married Priscilla Carlisle Bliss in 1881.

A biography of Charles Wentworth Upham Hewson, a Canadian medical doctor, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for James Harvie Dew, general medical practitioner, of New York City. He was born on October 18, 1843 in Newtown, King and Queen county in Virginia and received his medical degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in June, 1867. He is credited with a new method of artificial respiration in asphyxia neoatorum, which was called "Dew's Method."

An encyclopedia entry is presented for Herbert Cameron Jones, general medical practitioner and surgeon, of Decatur in Macon county, Illinois. He was born on January 7, 1855 in Athens, Ohio and received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 2, 1876. Though a general practitioner, he allegedly has special interest in diseases of children and obstetrics.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for Aurelius T. Bartlett, general medical practitioner and surgeon, of Virden, Illinois. He was born on December 4, 1830 in Searsmont, Maine and received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago. Illinois in 1862. He served in the Federal army as surgeon and later went into private practice beginning October, 1865 handling surgical cases including gynecological work, amputations and tracheotomy.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for Eber Leander Annis, obstetrician and general medical practitioner, of La Porte, Indiana who was born on May 19, 1860 in the said city and received his medical diploma from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois on February 22, 1881.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for Benjamin F. Swafford, general medical practitioner, of Terre Haute, Indiana who was born in 1833 in Randolph county in North Carolina and received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois in 1858.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for J. Gilbert Young, general medical practitioner, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who was born on June 21, 1840 and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1864.

An encyclopedia entry for Thomas Winslow Gordon, a general practitioner and member of different organizations including the Ohio State Medical Society, American Medical Association, and Indiana State Medical Society, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Francis Horace Getchell, a general practitioner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who is a Fellow of the College of Physicians, member of the Pathological Society, and a corresponding member of the Gynecological Society of Boston, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for general practitioner and surgeon Ezra Bert Evans, former president of Putnam County Medical Society and a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for general practitioner William Rush Dunton, who received a doctoral degree in medicine at the University of Penssylvania in 1853 and is a member of the College of Physicians, Pathological and Obstetrical Societies of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Jacob E. Schadle, who worked as a general practitioner of medicine at a medical institution in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania in 1881, is presented. Schadle obtained his degree as a physician at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1870s. He started specializing in throat and nose in the early 1880s and tried his expertise in the extensive field of surgery in the late 1880s.

A reference entry is presented for Henry L. Nichols, general medical practitioner, of Sacramento, California who was born on September 11, 1823 in Augusta, Maine and received his medical degree from Bowdoin College in Maine in 1845.

A reference entry is presented for John Kearsley Mitchell, general medical practitioner, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who was born on April 4, 1858 in Jefferson county, Virginia and received his medical degree from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1819.

A reference entry is presented for Franklin Adams Meacham, general medical practitioner, of Salt Lake City, Utah who was born on October 28, 1862 in Cumberland county, Kentucky and received his medical degree from the Medical Department of the University of Virginia in 1889.

A reference entry is presented for Crawford W. Long, general medical practitioner and discoverer of practical anesthesia, who was born on November 1, 1815 in Danielsville, Madison county of Georgia and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1839.

A reference entry is presented for Edwin William Link, general medical practitioner and surgeon, who was born on March 31, 1858 in Anderson County, Texas and received his medical degree from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in Texas in 1883.