Some American medical botanists / Howard A. Kelly.

  • Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Some American medical botanists / Howard A. Kelly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tary influence in arresting the disease. The good time every learned man tried to give him as guest during his progress homeward and while traveling in Europe exhausted his strength. He stayed with his wife and two daughters in Cecil Street, off the Strand, London, a narrow street up which to-day as then creep fog and mists from the river; a bad exchange for Carolina sun- shine. There, patiently realizing that nothing could Im done, he put on paper all he could of his Carolina work, enjoyed the men who flocked to him and got ready for his last long journey. He died peacefully in London, 1792. Meanwhile, botanists were increasing in number in the States, in Pennsylvania especiall}g which gave us our next worthy, Adam Kuhn. It was of him that the great Linnasus sat down on Feb. 24, 1763, to write to Adam Kuhn, senior, living in Philadelphia, in fine Latin commending his pupil, Adam junior: He is unwearied in liis studies and daily and faithfully studies materia inedica with me. He has learnt the sympa- thetic history of diseases in an accurate and solid manner. In natural history and botany he has made remarkable suc- cess. He has studied anatomy and physiology with other pro- fessors. Kuhn was born at Germantown, near Philadelphia, Kov. 17, 1741. His grandfather, John Christopher Kuhn, and his father. Hr. Adam Simon Kuhn, came from Heilbronn, Swabia, to Philadelphia in September, 1733. Adam first studied medicine with his father, then sailed for Europe in 1761 and arrived at Upsal by way of London. There is a little glimpse of his life in Upsal in the diary of one Fabricus, fellow-pupil with Kuhn, who writes: For two whole years [from 1762 till 1764] have I been so fortunate as to enjoy his [Linnseus’l instruction, his guidance and his conlidential friendship. Not a day elapsed on which I did not see him, on which I was either present at his lectures, or, as it frequently happened, spent several hours with him in familiar conversation. In summer we followed him into the country. We were three, Kuhn, Zoega and I, all foreigners. In winter we lived directly facing his house and he came to us almost every day in his short red rohe de chamhre with a green fur cap on his head and a pipe in his hand. He came for half an hour but stopped a whole one and many times two.