The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
of the sciences of anatomy and physiology. These lectures were illustrated by his wax models, together with dried preparations and injections, and were given at a hall in Videll's Alley, Second Street. The building still stands upon the south side of the alley. It is a quaint-looking old-fashioned two-storied brick house, with a steep pitched roof and dormer windows; it is now used as a carpenter shop. In this locality his lectures continued to be given, and his anatomical collection remained until 1777, when the latter was removed to his dwelling in Water Street, near the old ferry. Here he erected an amphitheatre in which his lectures were afterwards delivered, the first being given there in January, 1778. John Adams, in his Diary (Works, vol. ii.), speaks of his visiting the museum of Dr. Chovet, when in Philadelphia, and records that his cabinet was much "more exquisite than that of Dr. Shippen at the Hospital." The doctor, he added, reads lectures for two half joes a course, which takes up four months. Dr. Chovet died March 24th, 1790, aged eighty-six, and was interred at Christ Church. He visited his patients in all weathers on foot until within a few weeks of his death; his faculties having exhibited no marks of decay, and finally being carried off by some acute disease. We are told by
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