The doctor in old New York / by F.H. Bosworth.

  • F. H. Bosworth
Date:
[1898]
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Credit: The doctor in old New York / by F.H. Bosworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pro* mtnent pb^sis dans century. He is notable, I think, in having contributed an excellent paper on the subject of blood-letting, in which he discoursed rather vigorously upon its abuse, as well as its use. Another practitioner of the day was Dr. John Nichol, who died in 1745, after having prac¬ tised in this city for nearly half a century. He divided his duties to his patients with oc¬ cupying a position on the Bench in Governor Leisler’s time. Dr. John Dupuy, who died in 1745, at the age of twenty-eight, seems to have attained a somewhat enviable position in the Colony for so young a man, if we may believe the following notice outlined in The JVeehly Postboy of that year: ‘‘Last night, Sunday, July 21st, died in the prime of life to the almost universal regret and sorrow of the City, Mr. John Dupuy, M.D., and man mid¬ wife, in which loss it may be truly said, as of Goliah’s sword, ‘there was none like unto him.’ ” Among others of this period were Frank Brinley, who was surgeon to the New York troops during the French and Indian War; Ebenezer Crosby, a surgeon in the Con¬ tinental Army, who settled in the city after the close of the war and became a professor in Columbia College; and Charles McKnight, another surgeon in the Continental Army, who graduated from Princeton in 1761, and settled in the city after the close of the war,
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