Research material on Benjamin Church [photostats], 1764-1949.

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Research material on Benjamin Church [photostats], 1764-1949.

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Research material gathered by Dr. Timothy Leary of Boston, Mass. on Revolutionary War physician Benjamin Church. Includes photostats and transcriptions of letters written by Benjamin Church and letters written about Church related to his medical career and to his trial for treason during the Revolutionary War, 1764-80. Collection also includes research notes of Dr. Timothy Leary with transcriptions of Church letters; and correspondence with historical societies and publishers regarding his research, 1923-49.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Leary, Timothy, 1870-

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Leary (Harvard, M.D. 1895) taught pathology, bacteriology, and medical jurisprudence at Tufts College Medical School until 1929. His research was chiefly concerned with cholesterol and its role in the production of human disease, particularly atherosclerosis, and also the relation of cholesterol to human neoplasms, especially those of the kidney and prostate. From the description of Papers, 1911-1950 (inclusive), 1928-1950 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281431905 ...

Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778

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Physician, poet, author, and traitor; b. Newport, R.I.; graduate of Harvard, 1754; lived in Boston and Raynham, Mass.; after correspondence with British was intercepted in 1775, he was tried by court martial. Continental Congress resolved on Nov. 6, that he should be imprisoned at Norwich, Conn., but because of illness was removed to Massachusetts and put on parole; allowed to sail from Boston in May 1776 for London but ship never heard from again; family was pensioned by the Crown. ...