Scientific links between Charleston and Philadelphia in the eighteenth century / Francis R. Randolph. 1939.

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Scientific links between Charleston and Philadelphia in the eighteenth century / Francis R. Randolph. 1939.

Address at the celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the founding of the Medical Society of South Carolina, December 5, 1939.

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Packard, Francis R. (Francis Randolph), 1870-1950

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Francis Randolph Packard was born in Philadelphia on 23 Mar. 1870. In 1899, he married Christine B. Curwen (d. 1901), then, in 1906, Margaret Horstmann. The Packards had four daughters. Francis R. Packard died on 18 Apr. 1950. Packard received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1892. He did post-graduate work under Sir William Osler at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1892-1894), then became an intern at Pennsylvania Hospital. He opened his private practice in 1895 an...

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...