American Medical Biography: Or, Memoirs of Eminent Physicians who Have Flourished in America. To which is Prefixed a Succinct History of Medical Science in the United States, from the First Settlement of the Country, Volume 1 |
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Page 41 - So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Page 324 - ... his grateful sense of the many blessings he had received from that Supreme Being, who had raised him from small and low beginnings to such high rank and consideration among...
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Page 228 - He also wrote a history of the prevalent diseases of the climate, and if he was not the first to recommend the cooling regimen in the cure of fevers, he was certainly one of its earliest and warniust advocates, and opposed with great earnestness, the then prevalent mode of treatment in the small-pox.
Page 385 - Archer, he attended the regular medical lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution.
Page 324 - ... his present afflictions were kindly intended to wean him from a world, in which he was no longer fit to act the part assigned him.
Page 38 - July, 1819, shall be entitled to the benefit of law, for the recovery of any debt or fee accruing from his professional services, unless he shall, previously to rendering those services, have been licensed by one of the foregoing Boards of Censors, or shall have been graduated a Doctor of Medicine in Harvard University.