Word: physick
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...children and wrote tidy verses to Franz Joseph Haydn's music. While John padded about his museum, Anne kept a salon graced by Johnson and Boswell, Lord Chesterfield and Gibbon. Some of Hunter's students came too: Edward Jenner, who administered the first successful vaccination; Philip Syng Physick, the "Father of American Surgery...
...hospital has marked many firsts in medicine and surgery. In 1816, Surgeon Philip Syng Physick was the first American to use animal tissue to sew up wounds. In 1887, Dr. Thomas G. Morton performed the first successful operation for the removal of a diseased appendix. Some other surgeons are remembered for odd reasons: as late as the 1870s, Dr. David Hayes Agnew insisted on stropping his scalpel on his boot sole, and Dr. George C. Harlan, for handiness, held instruments between his teeth...
Downtown, one building dating from 1756 and others from 1796 are still part of the hospital-though antibiotics have replaced the bloodletting which Rush and Physick favored. A 150-year-old clinical amphitheater is now a television lounge. But, following Ben Franklin's example, members of the board of managers still fine themselves 50? if they miss a meeting...
...started when one Isaac Royall died in 1781 and included in his will a provision for "a Professor of Laws . . . or a Professor of Physick and Anatomy, whichever the . . . Overseers and Corporation shall judge to be best." Appalled by his grammar, the Overseers nevertheless spent 34 years collecting the money. By 1815 all $7500 was in the till, so the Corporation flipped a spare half-dime, decided that it should keep the skeletons looked in the closet, and went out and hired Massachusetts Chief Justice Isaac Parker as Royall Professor...
...Frances Tracy Pennoyer and Jane Norton Nichols, their husbands Paul and George, and daughters-in-law Louise Converse Morgan and Catherine Adams Morgan; $50,000 apiece to his secretary, John Axten, and Director Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan; $25,000 to butler Henry Physick; $20,000 apiece to valet Bernard Stewart, chauffeur Charles Robertson; his father's watch-chain charm (a seal), to grandson John Pierpont Morgan...