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July 1, 2008

Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820

Melissa Grafe is a graduate student at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.  She was also among the first Dissertation Research Fellows at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science.  During December 2007 and January 2008, she worked on her dissertation ‘To attendance and medicine’: Medical practice in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions, 1769-1820 at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania archives.  Here is a report of her work.

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Gigantic Mastadon by Titian Ramsay Peale, 1821
Image courtesy of the American Philosophical Society