Excerpt from Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Vol. 2: From May, 1853, to March, 1856, Inclusive However high my own appreciation of his merits, and however desirous I might be to do full justice to his memory, it cannot be expected that I shall here give more than a sketch of his life; but as that life presents so many and such varied points of interest, and was closely connected with the progress of medicine in our native country, I now bespeak the indulgence of the College, if I should dwell longer than is usually allowed, upon memorials of a man whose name is destined to be reverently pronounced, wherever the medical biography and history of America Shall hereafter become known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.