90 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



1808, he succeeded him as president, and was continued 

 during his Hfe in this distinguished station. 



In November, 1789, he was appointed professor of the 

 theory and practice of medicine in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and on the junction of the two medical 

 schools of the College and University, was chosen professor 

 of the practice of physic in January, 1792. In 1797 he 

 resigned his medical chair. As a teacher, he was faithful 

 and clear in the description of diseases, and in the mode of 

 applying their appropriate remedies, mostly avoiding 

 theoretical discussions. His lectures were eminently cal- 

 culated to form useful practitioners in the healing art, to 

 the promotion of which his whole life was devoted. Dr. 

 Kuhn w^as also a member of the American Philosophical 

 Society, and an honorary member of the Massachusetts 

 Medical Society. 



Of his writings nothing can be recollected but his 

 thesis and a short letter addressed to Dr. John Coakley 

 Lettsom, on the diseases succeeding the transplantation of 

 teeth, which was published in the first volume of the 

 " Memoirs of the Medical Society of London." 



Dr. Kuhn was not remarkable for the powers of 

 imagination, but in sound judgment he greatly excelled. 

 His talent for observation was profound. He was, through 

 life, a studious reader, a lover of music from his youth, 

 remarkably abstemious and regular in his diet, and neat in 

 his person. During a long and active attention to the 

 duties of his profession, he enjoyed so much health as to 

 use his carriage only in inclement weather. A most 

 prominent feature in his character was a strict punctuality 

 and observance of all his engagements. He was married in 

 May, 17S0, in the island of St. Croix, to Elizabeth, daughter 



