8  John  Morgan.  { 
Dr.  Abraham  Chovet,  was  a  native  of  England,  where  he  is  said 
to  have  been  a  demonstrator  of  anatomy  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  lived  for  a  time  in  Barbadoes  and  later  in  the  island  of  Jamaica, 
DR.  ABRAHAM  CHOVET. 
Reproduced  from  "The  History  of  Medicine  in  the  United  States." 
By  Dr.  Francis  R.  Packard. 
The  history  of  this  picture  is  rather  an  interesting  one.  The  original  is  a  wax 
medallion,  now  the  property  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  The  picture  was 
first  published  in  Norris's  "  Early  History  of  Medicine  in  Philadelphia,"  where 
it  is  stated  that  the  original  was  made  on  May  25,  1784,  Dr.  Cho vet's  eightieth 
birthday,  by  his  servant,  Dr.  Eckhout.  Some  time  after  Dr.  Chovet's  death 
his  daughter,  Susannah  Maria  Penelope  Abingdon,  gave  the  medallion  to  Chris- 
topher Marshall,  one  of  the  Fighting  Quakers  and  an  early  Philadelphia 
druggist;  he,  in  turn,  appears  to  have  willed  it  to  his  son  Charles  Marshall,  the 
first  president  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  who,  on  his  death, 
left  it  to  his  eldest  daughter,  Elizabeth  Marshall,  the  first  woman  pharmacist 
in  America;  she,  in  turn,  left  it  to  her  younger  sister  Mary  Ann  Marshall,  and 
she  on  December  25,  1877,  presented  the  medallion  to  the  Pennsylvania  Hos- 
pital, where  it  is  treasured  among  the  historic  relics  that  have  been  gathered 
together,  from  time  to  time,  in  that,  itself,  historic  institution. 
