406 NOTES 



P. 70 John Fothergill, 1712-1780, of whom Frank- 

 lin said, " I can hardly conceive that a better man ever 

 existed." 



P. 8 1 See, Transactions of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, II, 225 ff., article by Dr. Rush, on 

 Tetanus- 



' Dr. Schoepft, the physician general of the Anspach 

 troops that served at the siege of York in the year 

 1781, informed me of a singular fact upon this subject. 

 Upon conversing with the French surgeons after the 

 capitulation he was informed by them that the troops 

 who arrived just before the siege from the West Indies 

 with Count de Grasse were the only troops belonging 

 to their nation that suffered from the Tetanus. There 

 was not a single instance of that disease among the 

 troops who had spent a winter in Rhode Island." 



P. 83 Adam Kuhn, of Germantown, 1741-1817; 

 said to have been a favorite pupil of Linnaeus at Up- 

 sala ; the first Professor of Botany in America. 



P. 84 ' A collection of anatomical models in wax, 

 obtained by Dr. Abraham Chovet in Paris, was in use 

 by Philadelphia medical students before the Revolu- 

 tion." Goode, Beginnings of American Science, Smith- 

 sonian Report, 1897, II, 413. 



P. 87 " Then I dressed myself as neat as I could ; 

 and went to Andrew Bradford, the printer's. I found 

 in the shop the old man his father, whom I had seen 

 at New York, and who, travelling on horse-back, had 

 got to Philadelphia before me." 



Franklin: Autobiography, temp. 1723. 



P. 87 Melchior Steiner, Race St. near Third; 

 Charles Cist, Market St. near Fifth. See their adver- 



