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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    was also proficient in the profession. In Cotton Mather's sermon, preached at his funeral, Novem- ber 7, 1717, there is an Epitaphimn, from which the following is an extract:— MEDICINE Peritus ; Qui Arcauis vere Aureis, et Auro preciosioribns potitus; Queeque et Hippocratem et Helmoatiwm latueruut, Remedia panacEeasque Adeptus; Invalidos omues ubicunque sine pretio sanitati restituit; Et peiie omnein Naturam fecit Medicam. In his History of JN'ew England (II. 315,316), Governor Winthrop mentions the first appearance in Boston of a particular malady of a constitutional character, which is coeval with the history of man- kind. It was brought from Spain by a sailor dur- ing the spring of 1616, and is called in Winthrop's account by the name of lues veiierea. It was some time before its real nature was discovered by such in the town as had skill in physic and sur- gery, but there was not any in the country who had been practised in that cure; and during the interval sixteen persons became affected. Fortu- nately at this period a young surgeon hapi^ened to arrive, who had had experience of the right way of the cure of that disease, and, as the record goes, He took them in hand, and through the Lord's blessing recovered them all Ihlank'] in a short time. For the reputation of the sailor's wife who had just been delivered of a child, I will add that the disease is supposed to have been spread by the neighbors who drew her breasts as well as suckled her baby. The magistrates took
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