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botany in the College of Philadelphia, being 

 the first professor of this science in America. 

 As a lecturer, in his five or six professorships 

 held, " he was faithful and clear in the descrip- 

 tion of diseases and in the mode of applying their 

 appropriate remedies, avoiding theoretical dis- 

 cussions.' 1 In 1774 he assisted in inoculating a 

 population considerably decimated by small-pox 

 in Philadelphia. 



His other appointments included: Physician 

 to the Pennsylvania Hospital; consulting physi- 

 cian, Philadelphia Dispensary, 1786; one of the 

 founders, and in 1808 president, of the College of 

 Physicians of Philadelphia; professor of the 

 theory and practice of medicine, University of 

 Pennsylvania, 1789; and on the junction of the 

 two medical schools of the College and Uni- 

 versity, he was chosen professor of the practice 

 of physic, 1792-1797. 



Of his writings, with the exception of the 

 thesis mentioned, nothing can be traced save a 

 short letter addressed to Dr. Lettsom on Diseases 

 Succeeding Transplantation of Teeth* and a 

 paper in which he opposed Rush's Treatment of 

 Yellow Fever by publishing his own, over ini- 

 tials, in the General Advertizer of September 1 1, 



1793 (?) 

 Of Adam Kuhn, Dr. Charles Caldwell, cold, 



cautious, and sarcastic, says: 



3 Memoirs of the Med. Soc. of London, vol. i. 



