This pamphlet of a talk presented at the 1822 annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society argues that physicians ought to have a thorough liberal education—in geography, natural philosophy, the science of numbers, and ideally also “poetry, drawing, and every other kind of polite literature”—before training in medicine, surgery, and.....
An account of the founding and initial operation of the first hospital established in the English colonies, with a revealing autograph letter of transmittal and solicitation to one Thomas Worth signed by Hospital managers John Smith and John Reynell. Written by Franklin at the request of the Hospital trustees, the.....
The scarce first edition of the autobiography of Louis Hughes, who was born into slavery, escaped near the end of the Civil War, and after the war worked as a professional nurse, having acquired his initial knowledge of medicine from his owner while a slave. Louis Hughes (1832–1913) was born.....