The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
etc., and at the same time go through a course of midwifery with Dr. Smellie; also enter as a pupil in Guy's Hospital. As soon as the season is over, he may go to France, and live with Dr. Leese in Rouen, and there study physic until he can pass an examination and take a degree." While in London he studied Anatomy with John Hunter, and gave much attention to Midwifery, under the direction of his brother William and Dr. McKenzie, a then celebrated teacher in that branch of medicine. He graduated at Edinburgh, the subject of his thesis being, "De Placenta cum Utero Nexu;" and after an absence of five years he returned home in 1762, and in the autumn of the same year delivered a course of lectures upon Anatomy, with dissections. His announcement of this course was made in a letter to the editor of the leading newspaper of the day, as follows:—
"Mr. Hall
"Please to inform the public that a course of Anatomical Lectures will be opened this winter in Philadelphia, for the advantage of the young gentlemen now engaged in the study of Physic, in this and the neighbouring provinces, whose circumstances and connections will not admit of their going abroad for improvement to the anatomical schools in Europe; and also for the entertainment of any gentlemen who may have the curiosity to understand the anatomy of the(37)
