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.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 101, no. 3.
Notes
Originally published in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 166, no. 3 (July 1992).
Summary
This is a jounal article about a Lancaster physician who practiced in times before the founding of medical societies that served to standardize forms of conduct and treatment. The article recognizes the pressures he faced because of the competition from other doctors in the city. He is seen as a physician in "the middle" between serious practitioners and charlatans. He was professionally trained, but did dabble in patent medicines and a variety of pseudosciences.
Hale Columbia. Columbia, Pa., medical record, 1893-1905: A true and complete study of infectious disease & medicine in a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century
Contains extensive footnotes and citations. Indexed.
Summary
"From 1893 until 1905 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required local municipalities to record vital statistics such as births, deaths, and cases of infectious disease. The record for the community of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., survives in the county archives and is a valuable record of one community's struggle to contain diseases that are seldom encountered today: smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Within these pages, one can learn about the diseases and the treatments available in that time period and meet the physicians and community leaders who were in the front lines of the sturggle." [book jacket]
Chapters: The Institutions/ The Diseases/ The Cures/ Medical Education in the 1800s/ The Physicians of Columbia/ The Ledger/ Annotations
Contents: The settling of the county; Lancaster medicine in colonial days; John Henry Neff's inventory; Henry Melchior Muhlenberg - man of letters, divinity, and healing; Leckey Murray's last will and testament; The Revolutionary and postwar period; The "state of the art" during the Revolution; Colonial military hospitals; Dr. Kuhn and the 'Flying Camps"; The first pharmacopeia; General Edward Hand; Dr. David Ramsay; Dr. John Houston; Dr. Thomas Whiteside; Christoper Marshall's diary;The vendetta: Rush and Morgan vs. Shippen; The famous duel: Riegar vs. Chambers; Testimonial by a grateful citizen; Healing by remote control; Doctor Perkins and the metallic tractors; Lancaster's first hospital; The fabulous Fahnestocks; Reuben Chambers and the "Bethania Palladium"; The 1832 cholera epidemic; The surgeon general's report anticipated; Health and safety tips from the "Palladium"; Preventive medicine - 1832 version; Nature's own son - Dr. Samuel Thompson; Resuscitation : who pays the bill?; The first bath tub in the nation; Meanwhile, Out in the country - a self-made man (Dr. Isaac Winters); The vaccine farm; Folk medicine; Native sons - Lancaster County has had its share; David Hayes Agnew, M.D. (1818-1892); A Lancaster County success story (Samuel Brubaker Harman, M.D.); A case of prolonged labor : the birth of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society; Formation of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society; The charter members of the Lancaster City and County Medical Society.
