Excerpt from American Medical Biography, or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians: Embracing Principally Those Who Have Died Since the Publication of Dr. Thacher's Work on the Same Subject Some of the memoirs were written by myself on different occasions, such as those of Drs. Allen, Church, Hamilton, Haynes, Goodhue, Prentiss, Stone, Wing, Thomas and William S. Williams, Henry Wells, John Lee, and several others. I feel under great and last ing Obligations to my friends Drs. Sewall, of Washing ton; Coxe, Hays, Randolph, Wood and Hodge, Of Philadelphia; Charles A. Lee, Francis, Mott, &c., of New York; Jackson, J. V. C. Smith, Thatcher, Alden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.