Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . laid since the story ofdisease and death began for the world. In such researches Philadelphia has in many pointsled the way for American students. In Boston tlicchief physician for a time was also a Presbyterian min-ister, the liev. Thomas Thatcher, who in 11577 i)u1j-lished the first medical treatise written in this country,A Brief Guide to the Small-Pox and ^, whether brief or otherwise, were sadly needed,both of these diseases again and again decimating bothcolonists and Indians, while it raged a
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . laid since the story ofdisease and death began for the world. In such researches Philadelphia has in many pointsled the way for American students. In Boston tlicchief physician for a time was also a Presbyterian min-ister, the liev. Thomas Thatcher, who in 11577 i)u1j-lished the first medical treatise written in this country,A Brief Guide to the Small-Pox and ^, whether brief or otherwise, were sadly needed,both of these diseases again and again decimating bothcolonists and Indians, while it raged among the pas-sengers of the ire?co?)«, from which Penn and his com-panions landed just two hundred years ago. Twotrained i)hysi<-ians, Thomas Wynne and (xrithth Owen,were with liim, and found ample occupation for years infighting not only small-pox and measles, but yellowfever, American distemper and the various feversand acute diseases consequent upon the hardships andirregularities of life in a new country. The commonpeople followed Indian prescriptions, using golden-rod. MEDICAL HALL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. MEDICAL K Die AT I OX. 371 for (lysontcrv, boneset for ai>ius iiiid coiisuinplion, andalder-])iuls and dittany for tlu blood. II(rl)s and r(K»l1to-day. When fifty years or more had passed, the corps ofphysicians from abroad began to be replaced by a gen-eration born on American soil. The pioneers had beenEnglish and had studied in London or Edinburg orLeyden, as the case might be. Dr. John Kearsley andDr. Thomas Graeme were as popular as Wynne andOwen, and even more public spirited, Dr. Kearsley hav-ing been a member of the Assembly, and was often,after a telling speech, borne home on the shoulders ofthe people. John Kearsley, Jr., in time filled his placewith almost equal efficiency, forming one of a brilliantand memorable group—Lloyd Zachary, Thomas Cad-wallader, AVilliam Shippen, Sr., Thomas and PhineasBond, J
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