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 offers himself for the post. Besides these passing notices, no mention is made of medicine or its votaries.

Bringing with them few or none who needed a physician's care, these hardy settlers, in case of pressing necessity, sometimes looked for relief to the divine, who, in those days, not unfrequently possessed a smattering of our art, or to the high civil authorities, who also were often dabblers in physic; but as a general rule, nature was their nurse, and temperance their only physician.

Among the English colonists who immediately preceded the arrival of Penn, came "Chirurgeon to the Society of Free Traders." But of him I can find no record, except his removal to Philadelphia after a short residence at Upland. He came from London, was a man of merit, and was probably the first practising physician in Pennsylvania.

With William Penn, himself, in 1682, there arrived three well educated members of the profession, viz., Thomas Lloyd, Thomas Wynne, and Griffith Owen.

who had been educated at the University of Oxford, and had made considerable progress in the study of literature and science, was a Doctor of Physic. He, however, never practised medicine after his arrival in this