The medical side of Benjamin Franklin / by William Pepper.

  • William Pepper
Date:
1911
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Credit: The medical side of Benjamin Franklin / by William Pepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    saved, as being mischievous. Does your conscience never hint to you the impiety of being in constant warfare against the plans of Providence ? Disease was intended as the punishment of intemperance, sloth, and other vices, and the example of that punishment was intended to pro¬ mote and strengthen the opposite virtues. But here you step in offici¬ ously with your Art, disappoint those wise intentions of nature, and make men safe in their excesses, wdiereby you seem to me to be of just the same service to society as some favourite first minister who out of the great benevolence of his heart should procure pardons of all criminals that applied to him; only think of the consequences. One more reference to Dr. John Morgan is found in the letter here¬ with abbreviated, and also to another young medical student helped by Dr. Franklin. Cravenstreet, London, June 2, 1765. To Sir Alexander Dick,1 Dear Sir: I received your kind Congratulations on my Return to Britain, by Mr. Alexander, which was very obliging. The Slip to Dr. Morgan I sent after him to America, where I hope he is safely arrived before this time. He always express’d himself greatly oblig’d to you for the Notice you took of him and the Countenance you afforded him, and I shall always thank you cordially for the Regard you were so good as to pay my Recommendation. I think he will prove of great Use to his Country as well as an Honour to the Medical School of Edin¬ burgh. . . . . . . There is now at Edinburgh a young Gentleman of America, Mr. Samuel Bard,2 Son of a Friend of mine. He is studying Physic there. I have known him from a Child, and always had an Affection for him, as he appear’d to have the most amiable Dispositions. I 1 Sir Alexander Dick, 1703-1785. A Scottish physician. Author of a treatise on Epilepsy. 2 Samuel Bard, 1742-1821. Born in Philadelphia; son of Dr. John Bard. Studied at Kings College. Graduated at Edinburgh in 1765. Returned to America and was appointed first Professor of the Practice of Physic in the Kings College upon the organization of its medical department in 1767. He was instrumental in found¬ ing the New York Hospital and the Dispensary in the same city. President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Published in 1771 a paper on “Angina Suffocativa.”
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