Maine physicians of 1820 : a record of the members of the Massachusetts Medical Society practicing in the district of Maine at the date of the separation / by James A. Spalding.

  • James Alfred Spalding
Date:
1928
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Credit: Maine physicians of 1820 : a record of the members of the Massachusetts Medical Society practicing in the district of Maine at the date of the separation / by James A. Spalding. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of those trees for fear that old Doctor Lincoln would haunt me.” One day a patient consulted his son, and Dr. Isaac, in reply to a question, said: “Oh, yes, do give him a bit of medicine; enough to cure him; but be sure that you don’t give him enough to turn his stomach.” Henry Longfellow^ long time a resident of Brunswick, to say nothing of being a Professor of Languages at Bowdoin, was at one time rather opposed to the idea of having or of joining in with a Fire Company in the village. He talked so discouragingly at a meeting to vote on the question of buy¬ ing a Fire Engine, that Dr. Isaac finally jumped to his feet and shouted at Longfellow, “Well, Henry, don’t you be sur¬ prised if you find your house set afire some day, when people hear that you won’t help us to have an engine.” Dr. Lincoln remained very active till well along to the end of his life. It is said from this point of view that a neigh¬ bor met him on the street one cold, blustering winter’s day after he was more than eighty years of age, and he asked the Doctor what he was doing out on a cold day like that. “Oh, I’ve just been down to the end of Harpswell and Great Island to see two patients.” “Quite a long drive of twenty miles or more for an old gentleman on such a cold day as this,” replied the friend. “Oh, just a good morning’s work, a good morning’s; work,” said Dr. Lincoln, and with such a mentality and such excellent physical strength he went on to the end of his long life, highly thought of by all who knew him, and everybody did know him as a very able physician and a most cultivated man and scholar. He was an ornament to the town and an honor to the medical profession. TIMOTHY LITTLE (1770-1843) was educated at Phillips-Exeter Academy, and was a physician of fame in New Gloucester and Portland. He stood high in these two communities, in which he practiced for fifty years, and his medical brethren also had great confidence in his judgment
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