colonial physician & other essays
By: Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Science History Publications
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Medicine -- United States -- History; Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History; Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; History of medicine, 18th century -- Pennsylvania -- Essays; Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Portrait of the colonial physician.; title: Philadelphia medical students in Europe, 1750-1800.; title: John Redman, medical preceptor (1722-1808).; title: Thomas Parke, physician and friend.; title: James Hutchinson, physician in politics (1752-1793).; title: James Smith and public encouragement of vaccination.; title: Benjamin Franklin and the practice of medicine.; title: Lives in medicine: biographical dictionaries of Thacher, Williams and Gross.; title: Joseph M. Toner as a medical historian.; title: John Morgan: adventures of a biographer.; title: Adam Cunningham's Atlantic crossing, 1728.; title: William Shippen's introductory lecture.; title: Body-snatching in Philadelphia.; title: An eighteenth century American medical manuscript.; title: Dr. James Rush on his teachers.