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John  Morgan. 
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from  the  latter  place  he  came  to  Philadelphia  about  1774,  being  then 
a  man  well  advanced  in  years. 
The  doctor  was  an  eccentric  but  extremely  original  character. 
He  appears  to  have  been  a  man  well  known  about  town  and  is  men- 
tioned more  frequently,  perhaps,  in  the  local  histories  and  memoirs 
of  the  revolutionary  period  than  any  of  his  contemporaries. 
Christopher  Marshall  in  his  "  Remembrancer,"  has  several  anec- 
dotes relating  to  him,  and  also  describes  his  lectures  on  anatomy, 
which  were  held  in  a  building  in  Vidall's  Court.  This  building  was 
referred  to  by  Mr.  Evan  T.  Ellis  in  his  "  Story  of  a  Very  Old  Phil- 
adelphia Drug  Store  "  (A.  J.  P.,  1903,  page  57). 
Dr.  Chovet  died  March  24,  1790,  in  his  86th  year.  He  was  buried 
in  Christ  Church,  his  dying  request  being  that  he  might  have  a 
plain  funeral,  and  that  no  bells  be  tolled  on  the  occasion,  as  he  did 
not  wish  to  disturb  sick  people  by  such  unnecessary  noise.  One 
characteristic  saying  of  his,  that  might  well  be  quoted  here,  was 
"  That  physician  was  an  imposter  that  did  not  live  until  he  was  eighty." 
Despite  the  fact  that  Dr.  Chovet  was  over  seventy  years  of  age 
when  he  came  to  Philadelphia,  did  not  dispense  medicines,  and 
was,  in  addition,  a  notorious  Tory,  he  soon  had  one  of  the  most 
desirable  practices  in  the  city. 
The  second  medical  practitioner  to  follow  Morgan's  example  was 
John  Jones,  a  native  of  Long  Island,  who  had  received  a  portion  of 
his  medical  education  in* Philadelphia. 
Jones  is  usually  spoken  of  as  having  been  an  apprentice  to  Thomas 
Cadwalader,  the  first  physician  to  give  demonstrations  and  lectures 
on  anatomy.  Dr.  Norris  in  his  "  Early  History  of  Medicine  in  Phil- 
adelphia," also  refers  to  John  Jones  as  having  been  a  pupil  of  Lloyd 
Zachary,  whom  Jones  himself  is  said  to  have  described  as  "a  person 
whose  whole  life  has  been  one  continuous  scene  of  benevolence  and 
humanity." 
After  visiting  Europe,  Dr.  Jones  settled  in  New  York,  where  he 
devoted  himself  particularly  to  the  practice  of  surgery.  He  was  the 
first  professor  of  surgery  in  the  New  York  Medical  School,  and  subse- 
quently published  what  is  probably  the  first  comprehensive  surgical 
work  written  in  this  country,  "  Plain  Remarks  on  Wounds  and 
Fractures;"  this  is  said  to  have  been  published  first  about  1765 
Editions  of  it  are  known  to  have  been  published  in  1775,  1776  and 
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