A biographical cyclopedia of medical history / edited by Charles Wells Moulton.

Date:
1905
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: A biographical cyclopedia of medical history / edited by Charles Wells Moulton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    36/386 (page 30)
    of materia medica and medical jurisprudence in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, which place he held until his death. He published Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science (1844) ; Fevers of the United States (1850) ; and a volume of poems, entitled Simple Settings in Verse for Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dickens’ Gallery (1855). BARTLETT, JOSIAH (1729-95). Physician and statesman; first governor of New Hampshire; was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts, November 21; died in New Hampshire, May 19. He studied and practised medicine; discovered and ap- plied new remedies. In 1765 he was a delegate to the legisla- ture. He was a zealous Whig, and as a member of the Con- tinental Congress, was the first to vote for the Declaration of Independence and the second to sign it. Dr. Bartlett was ap- pointed general naval agent (1776); elected to Congress (1778) ; successively chief justice of the court of com-, mon pleas, muster-master of troops, justice of the superior court, chief justice, and was three times chosen governor of New Hampshire, the governorship of which state was his last office. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH (1766-1815). An American naturalist, who was the first professor of botany and natural history in a college in the United States. He was born in Pennsylvania, studied for two years at Edinburgh, and afterwards graduated at Gottingen. He settled at Phil- adelphia, and soon obtained a considerable practise. In 1789 he was appointed to the professorship above mentioned in Philadelphia College; he was made professor of materia medica in 1795, and on the death of Dr. Rush in 1813 he obtained the chair of practical medicine. In 1802 he was chosen president of the American Philosophical Society. Barton was the author of various works on natural history, botany, and materia medica. By his lectures and writings he may be said to have founded the American school of natural history. BASEILHAC, JEAN (1703-81). A French surgeon, better known as Frere Come. He was educated at the Hotel-Dieu, Paris, and for some time was physician in ordinary to the Archbishop of Bayeux. He invented the “trocar,” used in cystolomy, and wrote Recueil de pieces importantes con- cernant la taille faite par le lithotome cache (i75i)> and Nouvelle methode d’ extraire la pierre de la vessie urinaire par dessus le pubis (1779). BASIL, L. BASILIUS ( 1818). A Bulgarian physician and