Notes suggested by the Franklin-Heberden pamphlet of 1759 / by Henry K. Cushing.

  • Cushing, Henry K. (Henry Kirke), 1827-1910
Date:
[1904]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes suggested by the Franklin-Heberden pamphlet of 1759 / by Henry K. Cushing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    September. 1904.1 NOTES SUGGESTED BY THE FRANKLIN-HEBER- DEN PAMPHLET OF 1759.1 By Heney K. Cushing, M. D., Of Cleveland, Ohio. In May, 1903, there was a sale of a large collection of most [878] interesting documents, the so-called Proud papers, at the book auction rooms of Davis & Harvey, Philadelphia. These had been preserved from early days by a line of eminent and far-seeing men, all Philadelphians but one, as materials for a history of their Province, and from these Robert Proud arranged and published The History of Pennsylvania in North America.' Since Proud's day this notable collection has come down, from generation to generation, in the line of a distinguished Philadelphian' of Colonial and Revolutionary days, intrusted to him for safe keeping, and as tradition rumors, in view of aid rendered in the straitened days of the publication of the History; and in this descent the collection has grown by valuable additions of early Americana. From this sale the scribe of these notes secured the old pamphlet which has instigated them. In state and condi- 1 Read before the Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club, May 23, 1904. 'Printed in Philadelphia, vol. i appeared in 1797; vol. ii in 1798. • Philip Syng Physick, M. D. Mr. Physick placed his son when eleven years of age in the Academy belonging to the Society of Friends in South Fourth St. under the tuition of Robert Proud. Memoir of the life and character of Philip Syng Physick, M. D. By I. Randolph, M. D., 1839. (1)