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 his return, he practised physic for a few years in the island of Jamaica, but finally settled in Philadelphia. He was much esteemed as a physician and man of learning, was long attached to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and, according to Franklin, was the originator of the Medical Library in that institution. He bore the reputation of an eminent, candid, and successful physician, whose knowledge was deep and liberal, and improved by an extensive practice, diligent observation, and a penetrating judgment, as well as a zealous promoter of public institutions and literary interests of his State. He died June, 1773, aged fifty-seven, after a lingering illness.

was born in Philadelphia in 1722, and after receiving his preparatory education at the Academy of the Rev. Mr. Tennent, in Bucks County, commenced his medical studies under Dr. Kearsley. On the expiration of his apprenticeship he went to Bermuda, where he continued for several years to exercise his profession, and thence proceeded to Europe for the purpose of completing his medical education. He spent a year at Edinburgh in attending the lectures of that city, another at Guy's Hospital, London, and the hospitals at Paris, and finally graduated at the University of Leyden, in 1748. At his first setting out in Philadelphia he practised