The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
regarding its practice, honours, and emoluments, his recommendations of clinical teaching and hospital instruction, his recital of the years of labour spent by him in preparation for its active duties, in addition to its historical value, all make this now very rare tract worthy of such attention.
In the year 1774 a foreign physician took up his residence among ns who, besides becoming distinguished as a practitioner, laboured zealously in teaching practical anatomy, and is deserving of honourable mention from having aided materially in its progress.
I allude to Dr. Abraham Chovet He was a native of England, and had devoted much of the early part of his life to the study of anatomy under the ablest teachers of Europe, and lived first at Barbadoes, and afterwards in the Island of Jamaica, from whence he came to this place. A well-known antiquarian has thus described him from recollection, as he appeared a few years previous to his decease. "This aged physician was almost daily to be seen pushing his way, in spite of his feebleness, in a kind of hasty walk or rather shuffle, his head and straight white hair bowed and hanging forward beyond the cape of his black old-fashioned coat, mounted by a small cocked hat, closely turned upwards
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