A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine and pathology, diseases of women and children, and medical surgery / by W. Paine.

  • Paine, William, 1821-
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[1866]
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Credit: A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine and pathology, diseases of women and children, and medical surgery / by W. Paine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ranee; and a more scientific arrangement was effected of the vast amount of practical medical knowledge pre- viously accumulated. We allude to Drs. Morrow and Bu- chanan especially; the latter of whom brought much weight and influence to bear in the successful defence of the cause against the attack of a bigoted, sectarian foe. The names of Morrow and Buchanan will ever be held in grateful remembrance, by all true lovers of humanity, as pioneers on this continent, in the cause of medical re- form. Long before these gentlemen appeared upon the stage of medical action, however, Dr. Samuel Dickson, had revolutionized the practice of Old Physic in Great Britain, which had given birth to a new bantling, and which was christened by Dr. Forbes, editor of one of the leading me- dical journals, Young Physic, and gave it his warm sup- port. Hence arose the term New School, or Young Physic in England. But to return to the progress of me- dicine in the United States. In July, 1851, Dr. Morrow, careworn and exhausted from a life of incessant labor and anxiety for the benefit of mankind, sank beneath the over- whelming pressure of duties which devolved upon him, and yielded up his great soul to the God who gave it. He sleeps beneath the mighty pyramid of benevolence and philanthropy, which, while living, he created, and that will ever stand a vast monument to his greatness. Soon after this event, Prof. Buchanan retired to private life, to the enjoyment of the quiet associations of the do- mestic circle. While these events were transpiring in the west, the