The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
When they, with glasses, in their childish plays,
Make various angles with refracted rays?
So Panegyrics on the Doctor spent
With feeble wings fly short of our intent;
His worthy name with merits compassed round,
Shines bright in Fame, with true-born Honor crowned."
A nephew of the above mentioned gentlemen, Dr. John Kearsley, Jr., was also a physician of note, and in 1769 published an able paper on the Angina Maligna, which had prevailed extensively in the years 1746 and 1760. From the part he took in politics in 1775, he became obnoxious to the Whig party, and, according to Graydon,[1] had been detected in some hostile machinations. Like his uncle, his temper was unfortunate, and he was impetuous and rash. He was seized at his own door by a party of militia, and in the attempt to resist them received a wound in his hand from a bayonet. Being overpowered, he was placed in a cart and paraded through the streets to the tune of the Rogue's March. The doctor, who lost none of his intrepidity, answered the reproaches and outrages of the mob vehemently, and, by way of retaliation, struck up "God save the King," and continued so infuriate
- ↑ Memoirs of a Life passed in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, 1811.
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