James Thacher and his influence on American medicine / Henry R. Viets.

  • Henry Viets
Date:
[1949]
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    (9) History of the town of Plymouth; from its first settlement in 1620, to the year 1832. 6°. p. 382. pi., map. Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1932. Notes: Waitt and Dow’s Press. The Preface is dated Plymouth, July 4, 1832. Frontispiece, New Church; Index (pp. v-xi) ; Errata (p. xii). The text begins on p. 13. Bound in purple cloth. As noted in the Preface to the second edition (1835)? the whole of this edition, consisting of 1250 copies, was disposed of within a few months after publication. Copyright: 1832 (Mass.), by Marsh, Capen, and Lyon. Copies: MH, etc. (9a) History of the town of Plymouth, from its first settlement in 1620, to the present time: with a concise history of the aborigines of New England, and their wars with the English, &c. 2 ed., enlarged and corrected. 6°. pp. 401. fold. map. Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1835. Notes: The book is revis°d and re-set. The Preface is dated, Plymouth, Sept. 1st, 1835. The aborigines or Indian natives of New England occurs on pp. 353-401. The Contents (pp. [v]-15) serve as an index. In this edition the map is redrawn and improved. The frontispiece is omitted. Copyright: 1835 (Mass.), by Marsh, Capen & Lyon. Copies: MBM, etc. Ct. Abbreviations for Libraries Connecticut State Library, Hartford. CtY-M. Yale University, New Haven. Medical School. DLC. Library of Congress. ICN. Newberry Library, Chicago. ICHi. Chicago Historcal Society. M. Massachusetts State L'brary, Boston. MB. Boston Public Library. MBM. Boston Medica1 L’bra-y. MH. Harvard Univers'ty, Cambridge. MWA. American Ant’quarian Society, Worcester. MWHi. Worcester Historical Society. MiU. University of M:ch'gan, Ann Arbor. N. New York State L'brary, Albany. NN. New York Pub'ic L b ary. NNC. Columbia Un'vershy, New York. NNN. New York Academy of Medicine. OC. Cincinnati Public L:brary. OClWHi. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland PP. Free Library, Philadelphia. RPB. Br^wn University, Providence. Order of Thacher Publications 1. The American new dispensatory. Boston, 1810. l.a.-2 ed. Boston, [1813] l.b.-3 ed. Boston, 1817. l.c.-4 ed. Boston, 1821. 2. Observations on hydrophobia. Plymouth, 1812. 3. American modern practice. Boston, 1817. 3.a.-2 ed. Boston, 1826. 4. The American Orchardist. Boston, 1822. 4.a.-new ed. Plymouth, 1825. 5. A military journal. Boston, 1823. 5.a. 2 ed. Boston, 1827. 5.b. Military journal. Hartford, 1854. 5.c. Hartford, 1862. 5.d. The American revolution. Cincinnati, [1856] 5.e.- Cincinnati, [1857] 5.f. Cincinnati, 1859. 5-g-- New York, 1860. 5.h. Hartford, 1861. 6. American medical biography. 2 vols. Boston, 1828. 7. A Practical Treatise on . . . bees. Boston, 1829. 8. An essay on demonology. Boston, 1831. 9. History of the town of Plymouth. Boston, 1832. 9.a.—--—2 ed. Boston, 1835. References 1. The manuscript of the original diary has not, so far as known, been preserved. First published in 1823, forty years after the close of the War in 1783, the text may have been rewritten and considerably modified by the author in the intervening years. The diary, however, has the freshness of an original document in spite of its late publication. The second, and best edition, revised by Thacher, was issued in 1827. There were many subse¬ quent editions based on the text of the first, 1823, printing. Thacher was a mature man, sixty-nine years of age, when the Journal was first published. 2. All references refer to the second edition of A Military Surgeon, Boston, 1827. 3. The spelling of Skeensbury has been left as Thacher wrote it. He later referred to the place of rendezvous as Skeenesborough. It is now known as Whitehall, a name adopted in 1786. 4. Noted in a biography of Thacher, in manuscript, by his daughter, Betsy Hayward Thacher (1786-1871), now in the Boston Medical Library. She wrote: “Being so well qualified as an instructor in medicine my Father has educated more young gentlemen in the medical pro¬ fession than all the other physicians in the old colony. They are scattered through the United States and many of them are ornaments to the profession.” 5. There is no full-length biography of Thacher. The most extensive sketch of his life will be found in the Dictionary of American Biography (1936). Many letters, as yet unedited, are in the Boston Medical Library. 6. In the catalogue of the F. S. Hoffman Sale, held on March 19, 1877, in New York, an edition of the American Revolution, New York, 1857, was offered as item #4701. No such edition has been located or any other reference to it, except in Sabin (95148), where the Hoffman copy is noted, without further assignment. This might be the “third edition of which I find is to be published by the Harpers of New York, revised by his grandson, Mr. James F. Hodge” of New York. (S. W. Williams Amer- ican Medical Biography. Greenfield, Mass. 1845. p.567). 8 The Fenway.
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