The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Rush, Currie, Jones, and others. In 1798 they published a volume entitled "Facts and Observations relative to the Nature and Origin of the Pestilential Fever which prevailed in this City in 1793, 1797, and 1798;" and in the year 1806, another volume of "Additional Facts and Observations relative to the Nature and Origin of the Pestilential Fever."
After the date last mentioned, their publications were discontinued until 1841, when they were recommenced, and since that period have been regularly issued. In 1858 the mode of their publication was changed; they having from that date appeared in the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences."
In addition to the medical societies mentioned, two others were also incorporated by our Legislature, and were in active operation before the close of the century, "The Philadelphia Medical Society," instituted in 1789, and the "Philadelphia Academy of Medicine," of which Dr. Physick was the first President, instituted in 1797, with the particular object of inquiring into and elucidating the nature of pestilential diseases. No State Society existed in Pennsylvania until the year 1848.
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