The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
of the doctor himself: "He is a perfect original. A man of application, and of great natural vivacity; his reigning taste is disputation. When the English were at Philadelphia he was a Whig, but before and since they left a Tory. He is always sighing after Europe without resolving to return, and declaiming against the Americans he still remains among them. His design in coming to the continent was to recover his health, so as to enable him to cross the seas; this was at the commencement of the war, and since that time he imagines he is not at liberty to go, though nobody prevents him."
Another physician of note who, towards the close of the Revolution, made Philadelphia his residence, was John Jones. Dr. Jones was a native of Long Island, and after completing his medical studies in Philadelphia, improved himself still further by a visit to Europe, and, upon his return, settled in New York, devoting himself particularly to the practice of surgery. He was the first to perform the operation of lithotomy in that city, and his success was such in several cases which soon presented themselves to him that he became well known as an operator throughout the Middle and Eastern States. Upon the foundation of the New York Medical School, he was appointed to the professorship of
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