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tor's local practice. Webster, who was a member of Congress, at 

 the time, invited the physician to move to Washington, D.C. So 

 successful was he there, that he became the personal physician of 

 three presidents of the United States and was also instrumental 

 in 1825 in founding the first medical school in Washington, the 

 National Medical College (now George Washington University 

 School of Medicine). 



