Annals of medical history . re considerably moreimportant than those givenby Morgan. Morgan, on theother hand, proposed thedefinite plan that wasaccepted by the Trusteesj, and was the first professor ?3^-- to be elected. Morgans , Whicji SiiiipExs claim as the originalfounder was ne^cr to myknowledge disputed by the gentle, amiableShippen. They worked together harmoni-ously on the new faculty, and though in theturmoil of Revolutionary, military medicine,trouble aplenty developed, why questionthis splendid achievement now? One more item of the teaching of anatomyin Colonial Philadelphia may be
Annals of medical history . re considerably moreimportant than those givenby Morgan. Morgan, on theother hand, proposed thedefinite plan that wasaccepted by the Trusteesj, and was the first professor ?3^-- to be elected. Morgans , Whicji SiiiipExs claim as the originalfounder was ne^cr to myknowledge disputed by the gentle, amiableShippen. They worked together harmoni-ously on the new faculty, and though in theturmoil of Revolutionary, military medicine,trouble aplenty developed, why questionthis splendid achievement now? One more item of the teaching of anatomyin Colonial Philadelphia may be includedas a picturesque illustration of the times. In 28o Annals oj Medical History 1770, an English anatomist, Dr. AbrahamChovet, was forced by a slave insurrectionin Jamaica to flee with his family andsettled in Philadelphia. He brought with of the human body will be demonstrated, withtheir mechanisms and actions, together withthe doctrines of life, health and the severaleffects resulting from the actions of the parts;. The FoTiiERGii 1 1 mi Pennsylvania Hospital him a scries ol wax anatomical models,which, with a collection of dried, injected andpainted specimens, formed the basis for aseries of anatomical lectures in the winterof 1774-75: At the Anatomical Museum in Vidcls alley,Second Street, on Wednesday, the Seventh ofDecember at six in the evening Dr. Chovetwill begin his course of Anatomical and Phy-siological Lectures, in which the several parts ON NNiiicH ShiiIens Anatomical LEtrruRrs were Based. on his curious collection of Anatomical wax-works, and other natural preparations; tobe continued the whole winter until the courseis completed. As this course cannot be attendedwith the disagreeable sight or smell of recentdisease and putrid carcases, which often disgusteven the students in Physick, as well as thecurious, otherwise inclined to this useful andsublime part of natural philosophy, it is hopedthis undertaking will tn»tl with suitableencouragement. The Early Hi
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