The medical works of Edward Miller, M.D : late professor of the practice of physic in the University of New-York, and resident physician for the city of New-York / collected, and accompanied with a biographical sketch of the author ; by Samuel Miller, D.D. professor of ecclesiastical history and church government, in the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, at Princeton, New-Jersey.

  • Miller, Edward, 1760-1812.
Date:
1814
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Credit: The medical works of Edward Miller, M.D : late professor of the practice of physic in the University of New-York, and resident physician for the city of New-York / collected, and accompanied with a biographical sketch of the author ; by Samuel Miller, D.D. professor of ecclesiastical history and church government, in the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, at Princeton, New-Jersey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of several other instructors, he devoted four years to the diligent study of the Latin and Greek lan- guages, and went through the usual course of reading in the arts and sciences. He had, from very early life, a peculiar taste for the study of the classics. And being so happy as to fall into the hands of able teachers in this branch of know- ledge, teachers who had themselves received in- struction from the best European sources, his ac- quirements in Grecian and Roman literature were much more extensive and more accurate than are usually made in this country. Having completed his academic course, in 1778, he entered on the study of medicine, soon afterwards, under the direction of Doctor Charles Ridgely, an eminent physician of Dover, who re- garded him as a favourite pupil, and always treat- ed him with peculiar and affectionate confidence. He had been a little more than two years with Doctor Ridgely, when, in the autumn of 1780, fired with that patriotic ardour which he mani- fested till his latest breath ; not at all discouraged by the loss of a beloved Brother, who, a little more than three years before, had fallen a sacrifice to the hardships of the revolutionary contest; and de- sirous, also, of enjoying the advantages for medi- cal improvement, which a large military hospital peculiarly affords ; he accepted the appointment