biography
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| (1762–1829)
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| biography:
| Physician, surgeon, and medical educator, born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA. After serving as an apprentice to physicians in Vermont, he began practising medicine in Cornish, NH, but, realizing his lack of knowledge, he pursued studies at Harvard (1789–90) and then in Europe (1796–7). Back in Cornish with a flourishing practice, he persuaded nearby Dartmouth College to teach medicine and became the medical school's first professor (1798). When the state legislature failed to support his efforts, he went to Yale (1813) as its first professor of anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics. He was one of the most advanced American physicians of his day, both in his surgical techniques and in emphasizing close observation instead of traditional theory. His most important writing was Practical Essay on Typhous Fever (1824). |
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