The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
brought so far. He saw at once the utility of such preparations, and broken as it was, he was highly pleased, and answered 'ex ungue leonem,' that he saw enough from that small specimen to convince him of their excellency. Ruysch when alive, he added, had favoured him with some of his preparations, but when compared to this, they were 'rudis indigestaques moles.'"[1]
While in England he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, member of the Belles-Lettres Society of Rome, and a licentiate of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and of Edinburgh. Thus loaded with literary honors, he returned to Philadelphia in 1765, to see, as he expresses it in a letter to Dr. Cullen, "whether, after fourteen years devotion to medicine, I can get my living without turning apothecary or practising surgery."
Soon after his arrival, he proposed his plan for connecting a Medical School with the College of Philadelphia, and intimated his desire to be appointed Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic. The project was unanimously approved
- ↑ For a perusal of this, as well as for various other original letters, and papers, I am indebted to the kindness of David Morgan, Esq., of Washington, Pennsylvania.
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