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John Lawn
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| Doctor John "Mossy" Lawn | |
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| Name | John Lawn |
| Age | Currently in his 60s (already a doctor in Night Watch) |
| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Doctor |
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| Residence | Near The Shades, Ankh-Morpork |
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| Books | Night Watch |
| Cameos | Going Postal |
Dr. John Lawn, usually called "Mossy", is probably the only medical doctor in Ankh-Morpork known to cure or heal anyone. Normally, doctors are more to be avoided than the plague: the plague may not kill you, and certainly won't charge you for it. Lawn credits his training in Klatch, where patients were expected to get better. While he is unlikely to give his patients a little trim or a shave when performing surgery, he makes use of a number of curious and often alarming implements in his line of work. Being outside the medical establishment, he worked for many years in a rough area near The Shades as a "pox doctor" with many patients among the Seamstresses.
There, he met and treated John Keel and served as the surgeon for the short-lived army of the Glorious Revolution. When Sam Vimes returned from his time trip in Night Watch, he found his wife in difficult labour with their first child. He raced to get the (thirty years older) doctor, and rewarded his success - and silence as to the identity of "John Keel" - with a large amount of money and a building which became the Lady Sybil Free Hospital. Mossy continues as Chief Of Medicine there, apparently still fighting off the non-professional attentions of the nursing staff despite advancing middle age.
Lawn is quite possibly one of only two people who know the truth concerning John Keel: the other is the Patrician.
