Sam Forman's Blog, page 24
December 18, 2012
In Which Brutes Were Dissected
Date: circa 1800 Author: John Warren “In some of the more populous towns, students were sometimes indulged with the privilege of examining the bodies of those who had died from any extraordinary diseases; and in a few instances, associations were formed for pursuing the business of dissection, where opportunities offered, from casualties or from public [...]
December 11, 2012
A Spunker Club Might Exert Itself for the Benefit of Mankind
Author: Jonathan Norwood Date: June 5, 1775 [To Dr. John Warren posted from Falmouth, Casco Bay] “Sir, I suppose all thoughts of the West India Expedition are laid aside, and that you determine to exercise your talents for the benefit of your countrymen. I need not assure you how great satisfaction it would give me [...]
December 4, 2012
Threw It Up & She Said She Could Take Nothing More
Date: April 18, 1774 Author: [Dr. Bond] [To Dr. John Warren] “Marblehead April ye 18th 1774 Dear Friend It is rather too long since I heard from your Worship; I believe you must appear, propria[?] Persona, so give a History of your late observations as it should be troublesome to make up for all your [...]
November 27, 2012
Unusual Exports from New York City to Boston
by John Collins Warren I Date: 1796 “No occurrences in the course of my life have given me more trouble and anxiety than the procuring of subjects for dissection in the medical lectures. My father began to dissect early in the Revolutionary War. He obtained the office of Army Surgeon when the Revolution broke out, [...]
November 21, 2012
After Laying Him Out in Mode and Figure Buried Him God Knows Where
Date: November [ ] 1773 [William Eustis to Dr. John Warren] “Dear BROTHER, This may serve to inform you that as soon as the body of Levi Ames was pronounced dead, by Dr. Jeffries, Dr. Jeffries, it was delivered by the Sheriff [Stephen Greenleaf] to a person who carried it in a cart to the [...]
November 13, 2012
Methinks It Would Lead a Flinty Soul to Pity Us
by William Eustis Date: November 17, 1773 [to Dr. John Warren] Auspicious Youth, These are to congratulate you on the pleasing smile w[h]ich Madame Fortune has been pleased to cast upon you. Your happy success serves to confirm me in the opinion that superior merit seldom fails to meet with its reward. We poor delvers [...]
November 6, 2012
Recommending Brother John Warren, Newly Minted M.D.
Date: October 13, 1773 “Sir The Person who will wait on you with this is a Brother who has been with me in the Study and Practice of Physic and I think has made that Proficiency which justifies my recommending him to the Notice of my medical Friends, He is now deliberating upon the Place [...]
October 30, 2012
Your Undertaking Promises Very Fair to be Beneficial to Mankind
“Boston September 21, 1773 Sir Doctor Young yesterday introduced Doctor Randall to me as a Gentleman and Physician of Reputation, and at his Request I enetered upon a conversation concerning medical Matters in general, and more particularly upon the Manner of treating the small Pox, when communicated in the natural way or by Inoculation— And [...]
October 23, 2012
Bonding over a Serious Chest Wound
Date: February 24, 1772 “BOSTON, February 24. Last Saturday Afternoon two pettey Officers of His Majesty’s Ship Beaver now in this Harbour, had some Words in a Shop in King Street, which soon arose to Blows on the side of Mr. Bryant, Captain’s Clerk, and were returned by Mr. Quelch, the Gunner, with a Stab [...]
October 16, 2012
Epitaph in Latin for Elizabeth Hooton Warren
Date: May 17, 1773 Epitaphium Dominae Elisae War***. Omnes, flete, dolete, cari virtutis amici: Heu! Nostras terras Dulcis Elisa fugit. Quisnam Novit eam gemitus que negare profundos Posset? permagni est criminis ille reus. – D….. [Editor’s translation from the Latin]: Epitaph of Mistress Elisa War[ren] Everyone, weep, grieve, dear friends of virtue. Alas! Our lands [...]
