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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    him throughout the Union, and to which there can be little doubt that his appointment to a professorship in the Jefferson School was mainly ascribable. It will now, I think, be admitted, that what was before stated of the beneficent influence upon his fortunes of his fellowship in the College of Physicians has been fully confirmed. There were various other associations, literary, scien- tific, professional, or benevolent, with which Dr. Bache was connected. Thus, he was an early member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of this city; was in 1840 elected a corresponding, member of the National Insti- tute at Washington; and in 1854 became an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists at Mos- cow. For many years he served as one of the Managers of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Philadel- phia, and was for some time president of the board. In 1857 he was made an honorary member of the Amer- ican Pharmaceutical Association. One other association I will mention, because his connection with it exercised some influence on his subsequent life; I refer to the Temperance Society as first formed in this city. Dr. Bache heartily participated in the great temper- ance movement which began about the year 1826, and the influence of which, though impaired by various op- posing causes, is still felt in the general prevalence of habits in this respect greatly in advance of those which so fearfully characterized our country when the move- ment be^an. A society was soon formed in Philadel-