History of medicine in Massachusetts : a centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.

  • Samuel Abbott Green
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1881
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Credit: History of medicine in Massachusetts : a centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The disease was afterwards known as amaurosis. Spina ventosa is an affection of the osseous sys- tem,—according to old notions,—in which the texture of the bone dilates, seemingly distended with air. The first number of these Medical Memoirs was never printed. It was probably Dr. John Clark, at that time an eminent practitioner of med- icine, who is referred to in the letter, as a mem- ber of the Society. He was born on December 15, 1698, and was then at the height of his pro- fessional zeal, when he would naturally be inter- ested in a scientific association. He belonged to a family of medical antecedents and traditions, being himself of the fourth generation in a direct line of John Clarks, all physicians, and he was fol- lowed by three more, equally direct, of John Clarks, these three also physicians,—covering a period of more than a century and a half and in- cluding seven generations of the same name. During the year 1736, Dr. Douglass published a pamphlet entitled The Practical HISTOKY of a ]^ew Epidemical Eruptive Miliary Fever, with an Angina Ulcusculosa which prevailed in Boston ]^ew England in the years 1735 and 1736. It is inscribed, To a Medical Society in Boston^^ and the preface begins :— Gentlemen, This Piece of Medical History does naturally address it self to you, considering that I have the pleasure of being one of your numt)er, tJiat you have been fellow labourers in the management of this distemper, and therefore competent judges of this performance, and that where difficult or extraor- dinary Gases have occurred, in any of your private practice, I
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