biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1810–64)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. One of the elite group of American physicians who studied in France in the 1830s, he returned to Philadelphia to work at the Wills Eye Hospital (1839) and the Institute for Instruction of the Blind (1841), before joining the staff of the Pennsylvania Hospital (1842–58). A keen diagnostician, he went on to teach at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania (1860–4). |
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