Levi Bartlett letters, 1786-1802.

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Levi Bartlett letters, 1786-1802.

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7 letters (ALS). Letter from Bartlett to the engraver Joseph Callender. Letters to Bartlett from his brother, Dr. Josiah Bartlett, and from Drs. Thomas Kittridge and Amos Gale. Letters from J. Bartlett and Gale relate to the cowpox virus and Benjamin Waterhouse's efforts to regulate its use.

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Bartlett, Levi, 1763-1828

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Levi Bartlett's father, Josiah Bartlett, was founder of the New Hampshire Medical Society (org. 1791), delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of New Hampshire from 1792 to 1794. Levi Bartlett studied medicine with his father and with Thomas Kittredge of Andover, Mass.; and he practiced medicine and surgery in Kingston, N.H. He was active in the state legislature and was a justice in the court of common pleas (1807) and in the circuit cour...

Bartlett, Josiah, 1768-1838

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Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846

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Letter regarding Waterhouse's teaching at Harvard Medical School and his membership in the Massachusetts Medical Society. From the description of Letter to Caleb Strong, 1812. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231052789 Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) was the Hersey Professor ofthe Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1783 to 1812. He was given an honorary degree by Harvard in 1786. He earned an MD from Leyden in 1780. He also was a professor ...