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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    pectation, however, he was disappointed. He found only three, in any thing like a state of com- pleteness, and these were all Introductory Lec- tures.* Of the rest, he discovered only short (and sometimes very short) notes, or hints, which had been extemporaneously amplified into those connected, luminous, and instructive discourses, which gave so much satisfaction, and which his hearers generally believed to have been laboriously prepared. In the year 1809, Doctor Miller was appointed one of the physicians of the New- York Hospital; and, soon afterwards, received the appointment of Clinical Lecturer in that Institution. To the va- rious duties of these new stations, he addressed himself with all that diligence and assiduity, which his zeal for the promotion of medical knowledge, and his desire to serve the interests of humanity, could dictate. The second of the Introductory Lectures which make a part of this volume, was delivered at the commencement of one of his courses of Clinical Lectures in the Hospital; and it may be said of the whole, that they were not less instructive and useful, than those which he delivered as Professor. His junior contempo- raries, said one of his learned medical Friends, will long remember the sympathy for the sick, and the regard for the well, which characterized * These are all published at the close of the present volume.