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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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com-panied by dissections, at Newport, R. I. In 1762 Dr. Shippen laid the foundation of a medical school in Philadel-phia, which finally developed into the Medical Department of the Universityof Pennsylvania. This was the first medical school established in this coun-try. In 1768 a school of medicine was organized in New York, and the nextin succession was the Medical Department of Harvard College in 1782. Thefourth was established at Hanovei*, 1797, being connected with DartmouthCollege. These were the only medical colleges instituted prior to the presentcentury. The first book on American surgery was written in 1775 by Dr.John Jones, the title being Wounds and Fractures. PROGRESS OF MEDICINE 637 The tendency of the nineteenth century seems to be a continuation, and,perhaps, in some respects an exaggeration of the condition that obtained inFrance during the previous century; in other words, the world has becomepractically an enormous school of pathological anatomy and diagnosis — a
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DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. school inaugurated by Bichat, as representing so-called scientific or exactmedicine. Darwin has promulgated -the most influential philosophic doctrine of thisor any other century. Our materia medica and the laws of physics havebeen enriched by botanical discoveries, aiding greatly the experimental re-searches of to-day. Helmholz has given us an instrument called the ophthal-moscope, containing a series of numbered magnifying lenses, with which theinterior of the eye can be explored by looking directly through the pupil of 638 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY the eye, similar to looking through a door into a room. Through his know-ledge of physics, Seebach was able to make fame through his discoveryof thermal electricity. Daguerre, who invented photography, must not beoverlooked, as by means of this process, many conditions are directly ap-preciated by the eye which could not be told in words and still convey anidea of the tumor, etc., being describe

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