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The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.

Hunter, in whose anatomical cabinet Dr. Morgan says that he saw it, ten years afterwards. The second paper (1759) related to the use of Peruvian Bark in scrofula. These, together with an address delivered before the American Philosophical Society in 1782, "On the Rank of Man in the scale of Being, and the conveniences and advantages he derives from the Arts and Sciences," and his introductory lecture already adverted to, are his only literary publications which have come down to us.

His brother, Dr. Phineas Bond, who died in 1773, aged fifty-five, was also educated in Maryland, but after studying at Leyden, Edinburgh, Paris, and London, settled in Philadelphia. To this gentleman, along with Thomas Hopkinson, and his brother, is due the credit of originating the scheme of the College, now the University of Pennsylvania. He confined his practice strictly to medical cases, and no medical man in Pennsylvania, says Wistar, "ever left behind him a higher character for professional sagacity, or for the amiable qualities of the heart."

Cadwalader Evans was another distinguished practitioner of those days. He was one of the first pupils of Dr. Bond, and completed his medical studies in England. After

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