Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... and results. It was on one of these occasions that he brought before the Society the stomachs of recently slaughtered animals, to show that those post-mortem appearances which had been considered as proofs of pre-existing inflammation, were often present in cases of violent death, occurring in perfect health. He was for some time Vice-President of the Medical Society. That he did not hold a higher station was owing to an invincible repugnance, on his own part, to stand in the way of what might be considered the just or reasonable claims of others; and not only here but in all other places, he would accept of no office, the access to which must be over the disappointed hopes or wounded feelings of a medical brother. But his sympathies were not confined within the limits of his profession. He took a lively interest in the concerns of the community in which he lived, and, whenever opportunity appeared to offer for useful interposition, was not slow in contributing his share either of advice, of personal service, or of money. He occasionally sent anonymous communications to the daily papers in relation to objects which he deemed it important to press upon the public attention, especially such as seemed to fall peculiarly within the province of the physician. Among these communications may be mentioned a series of essays published in the Village Record of West Chester, in this state, in which he endeavoured to' point out to the country people the various sources of miasmata existing in the decaying vegetation around them, as well as the best means of preventing the production of these miasmata, and of obviating their effects. A strenuous advocate, on all occasions, for the rights of his fellow men, he suffered no motives of present...
