Matthew Irvine Letters. 1796, 1811.
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Irvine, Matthew, approximately 1755-1827
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Matthew Irvine was born in Ireland in 1755 and came to the United States as a young boy to live with his brother in Philadelphia. He fought against the British during the Revolutionary War, serving as a surgeon in the army. He studied medicine before and after the war, though there is no evidence he received a medical degree from a university. After the war he settled in Georgetown, South Carolina, where he practiced medicine for ten years. Later he moved his practice to Charleston. Illness limi...
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...
Irvine, Matthew, approximately 1755-1827
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Matthew Irvine was born in Ireland in 1755 and came to the United States as a young boy to live with his brother in Philadelphia. He fought against the British during the Revolutionary War, serving as a surgeon in the army. He studied medicine before and after the war, though there is no evidence he received a medical degree from a university. After the war he settled in Georgetown, South Carolina, where he practiced medicine for ten years. Later he moved his practice to Charleston. Illness limi...
