and care of Drs. Physick and Rush, and by the indefatigable atten- 

 tions of his friend and fellow student, Dr. Samuel Cooper, of Dela- 

 ware. In the course of the two subsequent epidemics, of 1801 and 

 1803, he describes himself as having been, what has been so often 

 denied to exist, an example of repeated attacks in the same individual. 

 Throngh the fatal and terrific visitation of 1798, and through those 

 of 1799 and 1805, he passed uninjured. 



In 1798, was founded the first Academy of Medicine. The long 

 and ardent discussions in which the members of this body engaged, 

 are well recollected by readers and survivors. The Academy, though 

 short-lived, endured sufficiently long to publish a large amount of mat- 

 ter against the contagious character of yellow fever. 



Between 1805 and 1607, Dr. Caldwell delivered the first course of 

 clinical lectures in the medical department of the Philadelphia Alms- 

 house, now the Blockley Hospital. Besides large contributions to the 

 medical journals, he was the author of various eulogiums and other 

 addresses. In the winter of 1810-11, he prepared and read a series 

 of lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, simultaneously with that by Dr. 

 Stringham, in New York ; these forming the tv/o first courses ever de- 

 livered in this country. Dr. Caldwell's course was several times re- 

 peated. 



Between 1800 and 1811 he prepared a very large amount of manu- 

 script, chiefly lectures and controversial matter ; the total amount of 

 writing which he has left behind him being estimated by a female con- 

 nection at thirty thousand pages. During this period, too, his literary 

 correspondence became large. 



In 1815, the Physical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania 

 was created; and Dr. Caldwell was made Professor of Geology and 

 the Philosophy of Natural History. He delivered three courses. 



Soon after this period, Dr. Caldwell was invited to take part in- the 

 establishment of three new medical schools, in New York, Philadel- 

 phia and Baltimore. These he declined; but, in 1819, accepted an 

 invitation to unite in the formation of Transylvania University, at 

 Lexington, Kentucky ; and to occupy the professorship of the Insti- 

 tutes of Medicine. To these tasks he devoted himself with all ardour; 

 and to the extent of making much personal sacrifice. " It is not too 

 much to affirm," says Dr. L. P. Yandell, " that he was the father of 

 the Western School of Medicine." Dr. Caldwell's exertions mainly 

 contributed to obtain, from the Legislature of Kentucky, the requisite 

 funds to procure a library and apparatus ; and he himself visited Eu- 



