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wifery : they measure 24 by 32 inches : nearly all are 

 drawn from nature by the accurate and exquisite pencil 

 of Riemsdyck, on a sky-blue background. It is very 

 likely that they were prepared by Fothergill's direction, 

 although he mentions their coming into his hands in his 

 usual modest manner. Shippen was glad to make use 

 of the diagrams in his first courses of lectures, 1762 to 

 1765 . The Fothergill Pictures and Casts are still preserved 

 in good condition, framed in oak and displayed in the 

 museum of the Pennsylvania Hospital. 1 A library was 

 founded at the Hospital in 1763 ; the first medical boolj 

 received was a new treatise on Materia Medica by Lewis, 

 the gift of Fothergill. 



Dr. John Morgan has been already mentioned. He 

 returned to Pennsylvania in 1765 after a medical training 

 in Europe such as no other American had received. He 

 had spared neither time nor money. The pupil and 

 friend of Cullen, he had studied also like Shippen under 

 William and John Hunter, and under Hewson, and he 

 had visited the best medical centres on the continent. 

 At Padua he was treated by the venerable Morgagni as 

 if his name had constituted him a son or a brother. His 

 admirable injections of organs and other original work 

 had won him admission already to the Royal Society. 

 Primed with the best medical culture of the old world, 

 Morgan conceived the aim of setting up worthy medical 

 institutions on American soil. He felt that he was the 

 man for the task. 



Whilst he was at Paris he began to write his introductory 

 Discourse, afterwards delivered in Philadelphia. It was 

 prepared with the utmost care, couched in eloquent and 

 persuasive words, and reinforced by quotations from the 

 classics. The discourse took a firm grasp of the subject. He 



1 Dr. Howard H. Kelly of Baltimore has liberally presented the author 

 with photographic reproductions of the drawings, one of which forms an 

 illustration to this work. Some of them show the Gravid Uterus under 

 different conditions, besides breech and arm presentations, and the foetal 

 circulation. They were valued at 350, and placed in a room by themselves, 

 where Shippen attended every other Saturday and explained them to visitors, 

 admitted for the purpose at a dollar each. See also paper by Dr. J. A. Scott, 

 Univ. oj Penna. Med. Bulletin^ Jan. 1904. 



