CHAPTER XXIX 



FOTHERGILL AND THE MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICA 



Tout ce qui vient des grands hommes est une sorte de ferment qui 

 tend a reproduire le genie. VICQ D'AZYR, loge de Fothergill. 



THE province of Pennsylvania, free, enterprising and 

 prosperous, took the foremost part in founding the 

 medical institutions of America. A long line of physi- 

 cians, from Thomas Wynne onward he came over with 

 Penn in the " Welcome " in 1682 practised their art at 

 Philadelphia. Amongst these were Griffith Owen, a 

 noted Friend ; Kearsley, a favourite of the people ; Graeme 

 of Graeme's Park ; Cadwalader ; Thomas and Phineas 

 Bond ; and the pupils of Kearsley Zachary, Redman 

 and John Bard. The intelligence of the colony found 

 expression, through these and others of her sons, in the 

 American Philosophical Society, set on foot by Franklin 

 in 1743, and in the College of Philadelphia, 1749. In the 

 former the names of Franklin and John Bartram head 

 the list of members, and Fothergill's name was added 

 during Franklin's presidency in 1770. In 1751 the 

 Pennsylvania Hospital was instituted by Dr. Thomas 

 Bond, ably seconded by Franklin, and the present building 

 was commenced in 1755. Fothergill, who had known 

 Bond when he was a student in England, took a warm 

 interest in the hospital from the beginning, and with an 

 eye ever open to the future growth and needs of America, 

 looked forward to the development of a Medical School 

 in connection with it. 



At that time aspirants to a medical degree had to come 

 to Europe to study. This had been done by most of 



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