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RAND pistol wounds received at the hands of a man whom he had shortly before pronounced insane.

The following are his principal publications: "The History of the Revolution in South Carolina," two volumes, 1785 (this work was submitted to General Greene before publication); "The History of the American Revolution," two volumes, 1790; "Life of WashingtionWashington [sic]," 1801; "History of South Carolina from its first Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808"; "A Sketch of the Soil, Climate, Weather and Diseases of South Carolina," 1768; "Memoirs of Martha L. Ramsay," 1811; "An Oration on the Acquisition of Louisiana," 1804; "A Review of the Improvements, Progress, and State of Medicine in the 18th Century, Delivered January 1, 1801," Medical Register for 1802; "A Dissertation on the Means of Preserving Health in Charleston"; "A Biographical Chart On a New Plan to Facilitate the Study of History"; "An Eulogium on Dr. Rush"; "A Brief History of the Independent or Congregational Church in Charleston"; "A History of the United States," published posthumously; "Universal History Americanized; or an Historical View of the World from the Earliest Records to the Nineteenth Century with Particular Reference to the State of Society, Literature, Religion and Form of Government in the. United States of America." Before his death he had begun collecting materials for a life of General Andrew Jackson.

His first wife was Miss Sabina Ellis, who died eight or nine months after their marriage. His second wife was a daughter of Dr. John Witherspoon, President of Princeton College, by whom he had one son, Dr. John Witherspoon Ramsay. His third wife was the daughter of Henry Laurens, by whom he had three sons and four daughters. One of his sons, Dr. James Ramsay, was one of the founders of the Medical College of South Carolina.



Rand, Benjamin Howard (1827–1883).

Benjamin Howard Rand, professor of chemistry in the Jefferson Medical College and author of books on chemistry, was the son of B. H. Rand, writing master in Philadelphia, and was born in that city, October 1, 1827. He began his professional studies in 1843 under Dr. Robert M. Huston, dean of the Jefferson Medical College, subsequently attended the usual course of lectures at Jefferson and received his degree of M. D. there in 1848. During the last two years of his student life he was clinical assistant to Professors Mütter and Pancoast. In 1850 he was elected professor of chemistry in the Franklin Institute, filling the chair until his election as professor of chemistry in Jefferson in 1864. He was secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1852 to 1864 and he served as professor of chemistry in the Philadelphia Medical College until it ceased to exist in 1861. In 1853 he became a fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and in 1868 a member of the American Philosophical Society. He held the chair of chemistry in Jefferson until 1877, when he returned because of ill health. He died in Philadelphia, February 14, 1883, at the age of fifty-five.

Dr. Rand married Hannah M. Kershow in 1853. She died the following year and fifteen years later (1869) he married Mary M. Washington, great-granddaughter of Fairfax Washington.

His chief published works were: "Chemistry for Students," 1855; "Elements of Medical Chemistry," 1863 and 1875; and he edited Metcalf's "Caloric," two volumes, 1859.



Rand, Isaac (1743–1822).

Isaac Rand of Boston did much to establish the art of obstetrics in that town, he helped organize the Massachusetts Medical Society, and he acted as preceptor to students of medicine. The son of Dr. Isaac Rand of Charlestown and his wife Margaret Damon, he first saw the light April 27, 1743. Entering Harvard College in 1757, he graduated in 1761, making a journey to Newfoundland in his senior year as a part of an expedition sent by the government to observe the transit of Venus. The study of medicine was begun with his father and continued with (q. v.), Boston's first obstetrician, and after the prescribed three years' novitiate, young Rand settled in practice in Boston. He was said to be a good scholar, translated Greek and Latin with facility and was an omnivorous reader. At the beginning of the Revolution his sentiments were with the tories; he took no active part, did not leave the town, and finally changed his first opinion that the efforts of the colonists to free themselves were premature, to a more sympathetic attitude.

In 1778 with (q. v.) and  he established a smallpox hospital in Brookline, where later  (q. v.) inoculated. Rand's name is among the thirty-one petitioners to the