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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Medicine and Surgery in the United States. (search)
d on a negro supposed to have been murdered by his master; surgeons received fees for dissecting and viewing the corpse, one hogshead of tobaccoSept. 24, 1657 Treatise on small-pox and measles published at Boston by Thomas Thacher; a sheet 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches—the first medical work published in America1677 First quarantine act passed by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania1700 First general hospital chartered in the colonies—Pennsylvania hospital of Philadelphia—organized 1751, openedDec., 1756 Medical department, University of Pennsylvania, founded1765 College of Physicians and Surgeons, medical department of King's College, New York, established1767 First clinical instruction in America given by Thomas Bond in Pennsylvania hospital1769 Term doctor first applied to medical practitioners or physitians in America (Toner）1769 Medical department, Harvard University, founded1783 Philadelphia Dispensary for the gratuitous treatment of the sick poor, first in the United States,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
ing of twelve great guns which had been brought to the English camp, Gov. Lyttleton of South Carolins to the Lords of Trade, 31 Dec. 1756. from such a distance as the seaport, and over such prodigious mountains. The Cherokees were much divided in sentiment. Use all means you think proper, wrote Lyttleton, to induce our Indians to take up the hatchet. Promise a reward to every man who shall bring in the scalp of a Frenchman or of one of the French Indians. Demere to Gov. Lyttleton, Dec. 1756. Lyttleton to Lords of Trade, 25 December, 1756. In December, the Six Nations sent a hundred and eighty delegates to meet the Nepissings, the Algonquins, the Potawatamies, and the Ottawas, at a congress at Montreal. All promised at least neutrality; the young braves wished even to join the French; and they trod the English medals under foot. The imbecility which marked the conduct of British affairs in America, showed itself still more decidedly in the cabinet, which, though unite