Mitchell wrote on a variety of topics including mesmerism, osmosis and liquefaction of carbonic acid gas, and the ligature of limbs in spastic conditions. He was the first to describe spinal arthropathies in 1831. In 1822 Mitchell married Sarah Matilda Henry, a union that produced 9 children including the eminent physician, S. Weir Mitchell. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1827. On 14 Apr. 1858, Mitchell died in Philadelphia.
Lectures cover the topics of fevers, eruptive diseases and gastrointestinal diseases.
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