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.
Date:
1865
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    closely as it is allied, and, indeed, essential as it is to medicine, is not an exception to this rule; and unless cultivated obviously and exclusively in subservience to the practice of the healing art, will be found almost invariably to impede professional progress in a greater or less degree. Dr. Bache was known from an early period of life to have addicted himself to this science, and I have no doubt experienced the effects of this reputation in the limitation of the number of his patients. He was appointed physician of the Walnut Street State-prison in 1824, and of the Eastern Penitentiary at Cherry-hill in 1829, and continued to serve in these positions until 1836, when his increased avocations rendered his resignation necessary. It is scarcely re- quisite to say that he performed ( their duties faithfully, and satisfactorily to all concerned. An evidence of the conscientiousness with which he acted is exhibited in the earnestness of his measures to guard the inmates from the attack of cholera, which made its appearance among us epidemically in 1832, during his connection with those establishments. The crowded condition of the old Walnut Street prison, in the heart of the city, offered one of the conditions most favourable to the assault of the disease; and the terrible fatality which attended its prevalence in the Arch Street prison, situ- ated less unfavourably, because in a less thickly-built neighbourhood, intimates how fearful may be the results of the want of due hygienic precautions in such institu-