John Morgan | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:JohnMorganPhysician.png) A portrait of Morgan, c. 1764 | |
| Born | June 10, 1735 |
| Died | October 15, 1789 (aged 54) |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | founder of what is now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Spouse | Mary Hopkinson[1]: 39 |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | William Cullen |
John Morgan (June 10, 1735 – October 15, 1789), "founder of Public Medical Instruction in America," was co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America. He served as the second chief physician and director general of the Continental Army, an early name for the Surgeon General of the United States Army. He was an early member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1766, where he served as curator from 1769 to 1770.[2]
- ^ Morgan, John; Harding, Julia Morgan (1907). The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. OCLC 4074944.
- ^ Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, I:14, 260-62, 278, 327-36, 328, 345-46, 353, 376-77, 403, 415, 427, 447, 450, 504, 513, II:17, 25, 37, 55, 128, 136, 138, 162, 165, 193, 272, 409, 420, III:8, 139, 160, 195, 282, 522—23.