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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    beg your Countenance towards him, and that you would occasionally favour him with your Advice in his Studies. John Morgan wrote to Dr. Franklin Oct. 10, 1765, from Philadelphia, and after thanking him most warmly for many kindnesses and especially for advancing the money for his fees to the Royal Society to which Morgan had just been elected, said: • . . I thank you also for your kind Congratulations on my being elected Professor of Medicine in the College. I shall by this vessel send You a printed Copy of my Discourse which I shewed you in MS. Before I quit this, give me leave to inform You that on the 5th Ult, I was Marry’d to Miss Molly Hopkinson who is well and joins me in sincere Compliments to You. Please to present my best respects to Dr. Watson to whom I would now write but for want of leisure. I remain with great respect Sir, Your much obliged Friend and most obedient humble Servant Phila., Pa., Oct. 10, 1765. John Morgan. The medical school was situated in what was known as Surgeons5 Hall next to the Philadelphia Library, founded by Dr. Franklin. In the following letter Franklin shows strikingly his common sense in matters relating to health. „ London, June 13, 1766. To Mrs. Deborah Franklin. . . . I am now nearly well again, but feeble. To-morrow I set out with my Friend, Dr. Pringle fnow Sir John) on a Journey to Pyrmont, where he goes to drink the Waters, but I hope more from the Air and Exercise, having been used, as you know, to have a Journey once a \ ear, the want of which last Year, has, I believe, hurt me, so that tho I was not quite to say sick, I was often ailing last Whnter, and thro5 the Spring. We must be back at farthest in Eight Weeks, as my Fellow Traveller is the Queen’s Physician, and has leave for no longer as she will then be near her Time. ... Very little is known of this journey taken by Franklin and Pringle together through part of Europe. Mr. J. G. Rosengarten in his
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