Letter, H. L. Pinckney to I. M. Campbell June 23, 1832.

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Letter, H. L. Pinckney to I. M. Campbell June 23, 1832.

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The Letter, H. L. Pinckney to I. M. Campbell, was written on June 23, 1832 from Henry Laurens Pinckney, Intendant (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina to Dr. I. M. Campbell, president of the Medical Society of South Carolina. Pinckney calls on the Medical Society of South Carolina to advise the city council on the best methods of preventing the introduction of and/or mitigating the effects of cholera which was occurring in Canada and which the city feared was on its way to Charleston. Pinckney entreats Campbell to report to the council with the Society's recommendations so that the necessary sanitary and quarantine measures could be instituted.

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Medical Society of South Carolina

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Benevolent organization of physicians founded, 1789, in Charleston, S.C.; considered the fourth oldest medical society in existence; the Society functioned as a board of health for Charleston until the City established a board in 1808; served as a licensing board for physicians and apothecaries; in 1840s, helped found the South Carolina Medical Association; in 1824, the Society founded the Medical College of South Carolina (today known as the Medical University of South Carolina) for teaching an...

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Pinckney, Henry Laurens, 1794-1863

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The State of South Carolina passed an act in 1836 demanding that all free blacks pay a mandatory tax to the state. Free blacks failing to pay the tax were forced to work as indentured servants for up to one year. From the description of Warrant, 1849. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 50178132 Sumter Co., S.C. congressman and planter. From the description of Plantation book, 1850-1867. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39208714 ...