The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
surgery. At the commencement of our war, he published his "Plain Remarks upon Wounds and Fractures," a work intended principally as a guide to young surgeons of our army in the classes of accidents to which their attention then was continually directed. This book, which embodies the sentiments of the best surgeons of the period on the subjects treated of, with the result of the author's own observations, contains much valuable matter, and is. well put together. It passed through three editions. The first was published in New York in 1775; and the two latter at Philadelphia in 1776 and 1795. He removed to Philadelphia in 1779, and was in the following year elected one of the surgeons to our hospital; and upon the foundation of the College of Physicians, in which he took a prominent part, was made one of its Vice-Presidents. He died in 1791, aged sixty-two.
Though not professional men, yet as well on account of their devotion to the kindred sciences of botany and natural history, as from having aided the progress of medicine in Pennsylvania, it would be improper in any sketch such as this to pass over altogether in silence the names of James Logan and John Bartram.
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