Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine by James Thomas Flexner
By James Thomas Flexner
The guy on the street wouldn't, probably, realize all of the names of the intense scientists whose careers and personalities animate this publication, yet medical professionals recognize them. Morgan, who based the 1st clinical tuition in American and, combating beside Washington, was once ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, even if at the edge of the barren region, dared the operation that ready the best way for all stomach surgical procedure; Rush, the equivocal character who, for larger or worse, ruled American medication for greater than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a existence, gained a dwelling laboratory; Drake, who introduced sleek medication to the hot West; lengthy and Morton, who banished soreness from surgical procedure and earned it for themselves - those males are commemorated of their occupation this day.
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He commissioned Benjamin West to enlarge it to life-size. One awful day he received a letter from Molly in which she exhorted him to be baptized. He, a Quaker, be baptized! In his dismay, he wrote an indiscreet letter to her brother-in-law, Parson Jacob Duché, in which he suggested that Molly was such a heathen she probably boycotted family prayers. When this letter fell into her hands, she replied with all the injured innocence of a virgin falsely accused. " She then returned to the attack. " Morgan continued to struggle, but it was a losing fight.
Every faculty, every city, was a self-contained unit whose discoveries rarely went beyond its walls; as he traveled over roads wellnigh impassable, Morgan was a bee spreading the pollen of knowledge, fertilizing minds up and down the continent. In Rome he visited Morgagni, one of the greatest scientists of all time, and was even able to teach that aged savant new tricks. " An eighteenth-century gentleman, Morgan did not limit himself to science. With his fellow-Philadelphian, Samuel Powel, he made the grand tour in the manner of a British noble- Page 15 man; ''en cavaliers,'' as he himself said.
The sad truth was, and Congress knew it as well as Morgan, that, whoever supplied the surgeons, they would be ill supplied since the breakdown of industry and commerce was complete. The one good feature of the bill, strangely enough, did the most damage. Its provision that the regimental surgeons should be accountable to the hospital department made them so angry that they rose in open rebellion, securing the support of their officers by atrocity stories about Morgan's inhumanity. When the sick they refused to give up died in their unsuitable hospitals, they insisted Morgan was responsible because he capriciously denied them necessary medicines.