. Annals of medical history. ally came from Eng-land. Unfortunately, this question, as wellas those pertaining to the relationshipbetween Jonathan and the John Kearslcysmust remain unsettled, since all evidence inthis matter was in the oflice of the Clerkof the Supreme Court when the Britishlired the Capitol at Washington in 1813. John Kearsley, Senior, received a liberaleducation and an excellent medical trainingin England. In 1711 at the age of twenty-sixyears, attracted doubtless by the religiousfreedom and early prosperity of the Quakercolony on the Delaware, he emigrated toPennsylvania. A
. Annals of medical history. ally came from Eng-land. Unfortunately, this question, as wellas those pertaining to the relationshipbetween Jonathan and the John Kearslcysmust remain unsettled, since all evidence inthis matter was in the oflice of the Clerkof the Supreme Court when the Britishlired the Capitol at Washington in 1813. John Kearsley, Senior, received a liberaleducation and an excellent medical trainingin England. In 1711 at the age of twenty-sixyears, attracted doubtless by the religiousfreedom and early prosperity of the Quakercolony on the Delaware, he emigrated toPennsylvania. A most propitious field for the practice ofmedicine was afforded in the Citv of 391 392 Annals o/ Medical History Brotherly Love. An unusually able groupof Welsh physicians had accompanied theUtopian expedition of Wilham Penn to theNew World. Such practitioners of physicas Edward Jones, Thomas Wynne, ThomasLloyd and Griffith Owen lent dignity andpreeminent position to Philadelphia medi-cine from its inception. Furthermore, in. Dr. John Redman, Philadelphias most famous preceptor. creed and practice the Friends had relegatedlaw and the clergy to relatively incon-spicuous positions in civic affairs. Physicians,therefore, by reason of their superior educa-tional advantages came naturally to attain,as a profession, a singularly prominentstation in the public hfe of the , Thomas Lloyd was its first deputy-governor and Thomas Wynne presided overthe first Assembly, while Edward Jones andGriffith Owen, likewise, held positions oftrust in the colonial government. Nurtured by this auspicious atmosphere,the vigor and manifold talents of the youngKcarslcy carried him rapidly to the front rank of his profession in Philadelphia, whilehis wide public interests early gained himprominence in the affairs of the Kearsleys rise in the profession was in adegree fostered by the gradual retirement ofthe earlier Quaker physicians. He was intruth the natural successor to Dr. Griffi
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