Portrait of the colonial physician.--John Redman, medical preceptor (1722-1808).--Philadelphia medical students in Europe, 1750-1800.--Thomas Parke, physician and friend.--James Hutchinson, physician in politics (1752-1793).--Benjamin Franklin and the practice of medicine.--James Smith and public encouragement of vaccination.--Lives in medicine: biographical dictionaries of Thacher, Williams and Gross.--Joseph M. Toner as a medical historian.--John Morgan: adventures of a biographer.--Adam Cunningham's Atlantic crossing, 1728.--William Shippen's introductory lecture.--Body-snatching in Philadelphia.--An eighteenth century American medical manuscript.--Dr. James Rush on his teachers.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 267-291)
John Morgan (June 10, 1735-October 15, 1789), "founder of Public Medical Instruction in America," was co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America; and he served as the second "Chief physician & director general" of the Continental Army (an early name for the Surgeon General of the United States Army). He also founded the American Philosophical Society in 1766 in Philadelphia. [wikipedia]
Contents
Chapters: Philadelphia boyhood / Frontier surgeon / London friends and physic / Student at Edinburgh / The grand tour / A plan for Philadelphia / The charter for medical education / "The Birthday of Medical Honors" / Physician and teacher / Interests of and American philosopher / Director-General / Vindication / Counter-attack / Physic and Philosophy once more / Last years
