Biographical memoir of Franklin Bache, M.D : prepared at the request of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia : read before the college, May 3d and June 7th, 1865 / by George B. Wood.

  • Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879.
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1865
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    cuted the work no further at the time, and could never afterwards be induced to resume it.* His first attempt at lecturing was in the same direc- tion. The lectures were on the subject of Chemistry, and, as I was informed by his brother, Colonel Bache, were delivered, about the year 1821, to a class consisting exclusively of his brothers, sisters, and other members of his family. They were afterwards repeated, on a some- what larger stage, to the private pupils of Dr. Thos. T. Hewson, who, deeming it advisable to follow the cus- tom, then beginning to prevail, of adding lectures to the former method of office-instruction, engaged the services of his young friend Dr. Bache in this branch of medical science; about the same time, I believe, that Dr. J. K. Mitchell was lecturing on the same subject to the stu- dents of Dr. Chapman, and the writer of this memoir to those of Dr. Parrish. It may not be amiss to state, in this place, that Dr. Hewson always exhibited a friendly interest in Dr. Bache, not only opening for him, as in * Besides writing his Treatise on Chemistry, Dr. Bache, jointly with Dr. Hare, edited, a.d. 1821, the first American edition of lire's Dictionary of Chemistry; wrote a supplement, a.d. 1823, to Henry's Chemistry, con- stituting a third though a thin volume in the edition of that work published by De Silver; edited, a.d. 1825, a System of Pyrotechny, by Dr. James Cutbush, who died immediately after he had completed the manuscript; edited, a.d. 1830, 1832, 1835, and 1840, four successive editions of Turner's Chemistry; and wrote, a.d. 1834, for the American Cyclopaedia of Medi- cine and Surgery, edited by Dr. Isaac Hays, of which only two volumes were published, the articles on Acetates, Acetic Acid, Acids, Acupunc- ture, Albumen, Alcohol, Alkalies, Alum, Alumina, Amber, and Ammonia in the first volume, and on Antidotes, Antimony, Aspartic Acid, and Atomic Theory in the second. (Dr. Bache's Memoranda.)