American journal of pharmacy . afford to make up medicines at a reasonable price, and itis as desirable as just in itself that patients should allow fees for attendance—whatever it may be thought to deserve. They ought to know what it is they really pay for their medicine and whatfor medical advice and attendance. Morgans plan of confining himself exclusively to the practice ofmedicine did not meet with the approval of his contemporaries,even such of them as had attained a medical degree abroad. It was not until 1774 that he had even a single follower. Thisfirst physician to adopt Dr. Morgans
American journal of pharmacy . afford to make up medicines at a reasonable price, and itis as desirable as just in itself that patients should allow fees for attendance—whatever it may be thought to deserve. They ought to know what it is they really pay for their medicine and whatfor medical advice and attendance. Morgans plan of confining himself exclusively to the practice ofmedicine did not meet with the approval of his contemporaries,even such of them as had attained a medical degree abroad. It was not until 1774 that he had even a single follower. Thisfirst physician to adopt Dr. Morgans plan of writing prescriptionsfor his patients deserves more than passing notice, as he was one ofthe most interesting and picturesque of the historical characters ofthe revolutionary period in Philadelphia. 8 lohn Morgan. {^^nl^ary.^m • Dr. Abraham Chovet, was a native of England, where he is saidto have been a demonstrator of anatomy for a number of hved for a time in Barbadoes and later in the island of Jamaica,. DR. ABRAHAM CHOVET. Reproduced from The History of Medicine iu the United States. By Dr. Francis R. Packard. The history of this picture is rather an interesting one. The original is a waxmedallion, now the propertj of the Pennsylvania Hospital. The picture wasfirst published in Norriss Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia, whereit is stated that the original was made on May 25, 1784, Dr. Chovets eightiethbirthday, by his servant, Dr. Eckhout. Some time after Dr. Chovets deathhis daughter, Susannah Maria Penelope Abingdon, gave the medallion to Chris-topher Marshall, one of the Fighting Quakers and an early Philadelphiadruggist; he, in turn, appears to have willed it to his son Charles Marshall, thefirst president of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, who, on his deach,left it to his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Marshall, the first woman pharmacistin America; she, in turn, left it to her younger sister Mary Ann Marshall, andshe on December 25, 1877
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