. 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 . e Practice of Medicine and Sur-gery and Pharmacy in the Military Hospitals of France,consisting merely of translations from the French journalsof military medicine. The first real American medicaljournal was the Medical Repository, begun in 1797 anddiscontinued in 1824. The present century, now drawing to its close, saw inits earlier half the rise of a large number of American phy-sicians and surgeons who h
. 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 . e Practice of Medicine and Sur-gery and Pharmacy in the Military Hospitals of France,consisting merely of translations from the French journalsof military medicine. The first real American medicaljournal was the Medical Repository, begun in 1797 anddiscontinued in 1824. The present century, now drawing to its close, saw inits earlier half the rise of a large number of American phy-sicians and surgeons who have made their names illustriousfor all time by their teachings, their writings, and theirinvention and originality. While it is, of course, invidious 286 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. to select names, the following certainly deserve honorablemention in this list, without the slightest disrespect orintentional slight to many others whose names must beomitted for want of space. Jolni R. Cox (1773-1864), an early student of Benja-min Rush, filled the chair of Materia Medica and Phar-macy in the University of Pennsylvania, and published theAmerican Dispensatory in 1806. Caspar Wistar (1761-. FiG. 45.—George B. Wood, (From an engraving by T. B. Welch, of Philadelphia, made from a daguerreotype by McClees andGermon, of Philadelphia.) 1818) was the author of a System of Anatomy^—held ingreat favor in his day as a text-book. Nathaniel Chapman(1780-1853) was Professor of Theory and Practice in theUniversity of Pennsylvania until 1850. John Eberle heldthe similar chair of the Jefferson School from former wrote on Materia Medica and Therapeutics,the latter on tlie Practice of Medicine, both works beingexceedingly popular. John W. Francis (1789-1861) NOTABLE AMERICAN PRACTITIONERS. 287 taught obstetrics in the College of Physicians and Surgeonsfrom 1826-1830. Franklin Bache (1792-1864) was oneof the authors of the Dispensatory of the United States ofAmerica^ published in
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