The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
in America. He appropriated, by will, a large part of his property to the foundation of Christ Church Hospital, an institution for the support of poor widows of the Episcopal Church, of which communion he was an earnest member. Dr. Kearsley was the preceptor of Zachary, Redman, Bard, and others, who afterwards became distinguished among us. He is stated to have possessed a morose and unhappy temper, and to have treated his pupils with great rigor, requiring of them services of the most menial kind. He died in 1772, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, greatly regretted by our citizens. From a poetical panegyric on him, published in the "Pennsylvania Mercury," for November, 1744, I take the following extract:—
"Of his great labors and admired skill
In cure of mortals seized with every ill,
What safe relief great multitudes have found
In every Grief, Distemper, Fracture, Wound!
How far and wide his practice has been spread
To heal the sick, and almost raise the dead
To speak at large, the torrent runs too long
For Plato's numbers and for Tully's tongue.
Can boys enlarge the sun's refulgent light,
Or add new lustre, magnitude, or height,
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