Manuscript collections of medical men in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. [Philadelphia, 1966.].

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Manuscript collections of medical men in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. [Philadelphia, 1966.].

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...