. Annals of medical history. A solemn house of worship in the slums of a modern city. some unrecorded codicil or agreement be-tween the interested parties made thisprovision active only on the death of hiswidow, since this fund became available onher decease. May 26, 1778. Supplementedby donations and bequests from JosephDobbins of South Carolina, the originalArch Street property used as a home wasremodeled in 1785 and ultimately a new andadequate building was provided on CherryStreet in 1819. Thus a life of usefulness in medical andcivic afTairs had left its stamp on the cominggenerations of
. Annals of medical history. A solemn house of worship in the slums of a modern city. some unrecorded codicil or agreement be-tween the interested parties made thisprovision active only on the death of hiswidow, since this fund became available onher decease. May 26, 1778. Supplementedby donations and bequests from JosephDobbins of South Carolina, the originalArch Street property used as a home wasremodeled in 1785 and ultimately a new andadequate building was provided on CherryStreet in 1819. Thus a life of usefulness in medical andcivic afTairs had left its stamp on the cominggenerations of Philadelphians through encr- 398 Annals oj Medical History getic tutelage and preeminent example, andindeed on the very character of the city bynotable contributions to its architecture andinstitutions. Furthermore, the name, John Kearsley,was still borne by a briUiant nephew,. State House. already prominent in the medical circles ofPhiladelphia. Of his antecedents little isknown. The court records of Philadelphiashow an identity of beneficiaries in Sedge-field, England, in the wills of both thenephew and uncle, with the omission ofJohn from the formers list of brothers andsisters. The deduction, therefore, that JohnKearsley, Junior, belonged to the Sedge-lield Kcarsleys is justifiable. It may be in-ferred that the younger John Kearsleycame to America to share the good fortuneof his uncle. Ho was a house pupil of Kearsley, Senior; but no record isfound of his receiving any portion of hismedical education in England. John Kearsley, Junior, had established anextensive practice and was universally re-spected prior to the dark days of the Revolu-tion. In 1766 he joined John Morgan, Clark-son, Bayard, Harris and Glentworth to formthe Philadelphia Medical Society, the lirslorganization of the kind in article on the epidemics of angina ma-h
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