The colonial physician & other essays / Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.

New York : Science History Publications, 1975.

229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st ed.

Includes bibliographic references

Portrait of the colonial physician.--Philadelphia medical students in Europe, 1750-1800.--John Redman, medical preceptor (1722-1808).--Thomas Parke, physician and friend.--James Hutchinson, physician in politics (1752-1793).--James Smith and public encouragement of vaccination.--Benjamin Franklin and the practice of medicine.--Lives in medicine: biographic dictionaries of Thacher, Williams and Gross.--Joseph M. Toner as a medical historian.--John Morgan: adventures of a biographer.--Adam Cunningham's Atlantic crossing, 1728.--William Shippen's introductory lecture.--Body-snatching in Philadelphia.--An eighteenth century American medical manuscript.--Dr. James Rush on his teachers.