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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Medicine and Surgery in the United States. (search)
Medicine and Surgery in the United States. The position of physician-general of the colony of Virginia was held one year by Lawrence Bohun, who arrived 1610; and afterwards by John Pot, the first permanent resident physician in the United States. Samuel Fuller, first physician of New England, arrived in the Mayflower in 1620, and Johannes la Montagne, first permanent medical settler in New Amsterdam, arrived 1637, followed the next year by Gerrit Schult and Hans Kiersted, while Abraham Staats settled at Albany prior to 1650. Lambert Wilson, a chirurgeon or surgeon, was sent to New England in 1629 to serve the colony three years, and to educate and instruct in his art one or more youths. Anatomical lectures were delivered in Harvard College by Giles Firman be fore1647 Earliest law to regulate practice of medicine in the colonies was passed in Massachusetts in 1649; adopted by New York1665 Earliest recorded autopsy and verdict of a coroner's jury was made in Maryland on
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mormons, (search)
court came to the conclusion that Congress had the right to seize the property, and said: Congress had before it a contumacious organization, wielding by its resources an immense power in the Territory of Utah and employing those resources in constantly attempting to oppose, subvert, and thwart the legislation of Congress and the will of the government. Under such circumstances we have no doubt of the right of Congress to do as it did. The decree of the lower court is affirmed. Justice Fuller said that he and Justices Field and Lamar were constrained to dissent from this decision. The power of Congress to legislate over the Territories was not incident to the treaty-making power; and its power was restricted directly to that expressed or implied in the Constitution. There was no such power granted as that involved in the act under consideration. Congress unquestionably had power to suppress polygamy, and it was immaterial whether the crime was committed in the name of reli
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pilgrim fathers, the (search)
iness of the ship, were twice compelled to return to port. Dismissing this unseaworthy vessel, 101 of the number who came from Leyden sailed in the Mayflower, Sept. 6 (O. S.). These included the Pilgrim fathers, so called. The following are the names of the forty-one persons who signed the constitution of government on board the Mayflower, and are known as the Pilgrim Fathers: John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Myles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Tilley, John Tilley, Francis Cook, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Ridgedale, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eaton, James Chilton, John Crackston, John Billington, Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Degory Priest, Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow, Edward Margeson, Peter Brown, Richard Britteridge, George Soule, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardiner, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edwa