. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . -1813). He was one of Shippens earliest studentsin anatomy, studied widely abroad, was a member of theContinental Congress, and one of the signers of the Decla-ration of Independence. After him is named Hush MedicalCollege of Chicago. He was an extensive writer on avariety of subjects, not only professional, but political, phil-osophical, etc. He recognized but two kinds of remedies,—stimulants and depressa
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . -1813). He was one of Shippens earliest studentsin anatomy, studied widely abroad, was a member of theContinental Congress, and one of the signers of the Decla-ration of Independence. After him is named Hush MedicalCollege of Chicago. He was an extensive writer on avariety of subjects, not only professional, but political, phil-osophical, etc. He recognized but two kinds of remedies,—stimulants and depressants,—and ]w]d it to be the prin-cipal duty of the physician to decide as to whicli were mostadvisable in a given case. He called calomel the Sam- 284 THE HISTORY Or MEDICINE. son of the materia medica, and his opponents contendedthat he was right, since it had undoubtedly slain its thou-sands. As an accurate observer of disease, he was correctand exact, and his descriptions are to-day both classic andreliable. The study of practical anatomy has always been carriedon in this country under great disadvantages. At first onlythe bodies of executed criminals were sparingly Fig. 44.—Benjamin , (From a steel engraving by R. W. Dodson of a painting by T. Sully.) In 1788, in New York, occurred the celebrated doctorsmob, which attested the vehemence of public objection todissection, and which for two days defied the control ofall the authorities. Secret dissections had been practicedin Harvard College so early as 1771, but the practicewas against the law even for sixty years later in Massa-chusetts. Physiology, as such, was not taught in anymedical school in this country during the century, and ex- THE FIRST MEDICAL JOURNALS. 285 perimental physiology was practically unknown. Surgerywas eagerly studied, especially during war times, and Jones (1729-1791), of the Kings College School,was, perhaps, the most eminent of the surgeons of his who vi
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