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A Thistle Planted in America Topics of Interest- A Thistle Planted in America Zachary Friedenberg, MD The Scottish Thistle – National Emblem of Morgan, like most of the American Edinburgh Scotland which adorns the John Morgan Building students, had some medical training as an on the Campus of the University of Pennsylvania. apprentice before he left America.4 After attending Dr. Finley’s Academy; he completed his JOHN MORGAN AND THE NEW SCHOOL OF classical education at the College of Philadelphia, MEDICINE established by Franklin in 1749, and already one of the most prestigious schools in America. He then Abstract: served an apprenticeship with Dr. John Redman and, with the outbreak of the war in North The early history of the medical school at the America between Britain and France, he joined the University of Pennsylvania was born as an idea army as a lieutenant in the medical department in Edinburgh, Scotland, transmitted to the with the British forces before sailing for west, molded by rebellion and forged in the fire Edinburgh.5 of a war for independence. Its central actor, William Shippin, Jr. also had John Morgan was in turn, a hero, a scapegoat, considerable medical experience before his arrival and then forsaken. at the Edinburgh school. He had been an apprentice with his father and he had studied Each week, the American medical anatomy with the celebrated John Hunter, whom students in Edinburgh met to discuss their studies, he later accompanied on rounds in the London compare letters from home, -- and to criticize the hospitals in a clinical rotation.6 Before practice of medicine in America, where any matriculating at Edinburgh, Morgan and Shippen “uneducated fool” could call himself a doctor, had a common background, both were from prescribe treatment and deceive the public.1,2 In Philadelphia, both had served an apprenticeship, Britain, by contrast, doctors were now licensed the both were interested in medical education, and Royal Academy and had to meet prescribed between 1760 and 1762, both were students in standards. 3 The Virginia students, in particular, Edinburgh. Both saw the need of a medical school were very vociferous and went so far as to draft a in America, and discussed courses to be given, series of complaints to the House of Burgess, requirements for entry and degrees to be demanding medical training as a pre-requisite for conferred.7 the title of Doctor.3 John Morgan, newly arrived Shippen returned to Philadelphia, in 1762 in Edinburgh in 1760, went even further. He said, and showed his interest in teaching by giving a there should be an examining body that licensed series of lectures in anatomy and midwifery in all doctors in America.2,3 1762 and 1763, which were so popular that 250 Address for Correspondence: students attended the course in 1763.8 Zachary Friedenberg, M.D. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery The Americans from the Colonies Penn Presbyterian Medical Center impressed the teaching staff at Edinburgh with 51 North 39th Street , Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 1-215-662-3340 their studious, no nonsense attitude. They banded Fax: 1-215-662-5978 Email: [email protected] together to form the “American Club” for study and leisure. Classes began at eight in the morning Dr. Friedenberg is a Professor of Orthopaedic surgery at the Children’s and continued until seven in the evening. In Hospital of Philadelphia addition, time must also be allocated for clinical teaching in the Infirmary where for the first time, bedside teaching was part of the medical course. University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal Volume 19 A Thistle Planted in America Z. Friedenberg Socially, they were in great demand by the Maine and Georgia, and extending westward townspeople who invited them to their homes to several hundred miles.9 Three-thousand “doctors” learn about the opportunities in America and or healers served this population of which 117 American life. Tales of the wide open land doctors graduated from Edinburgh and perhaps expanses, the small towns, and the remote farms another hundred took courses but never graduated. were a breath of fresh air to those crowded in the There were also doctors who had taken courses or squalid cities of Britain. earned degrees in Paris, Leyden, Bonn and Vienna. The medical school at Edinburgh was There were others who served an apprenticeship preferred for education as courses were no longer but most doctors in America had no training; they taught in Latin, although a thesis and its defense assumed the title after having “cured” someone in were still demanded in Latin to get the M.D. their community after which others sought their degree. The staff was world famous; Cullen in advice.10 medicine, three generations of the Monro family The Independent Reflector, a newspaper taught anatomy and surgery, Benjamin Bell had in New York, complained, “Few physicians just written his multi-volume textbook of surgery amongst us are eminent for their skill. Quacks which was reprinted and the standard text in abound like locusts in Egypt. The profession is surgery, Joseph Black, chemist and discoverer of under no kind of regulation. We have no laws carbon dioxide lectured in chemistry.8 protecting the King’s subjects from malpractice of In the more established, older universities the pretender.”2 such as Oxford and Cambridge, admission for the study of medicine required seven years of classical ******************************* education, including courses in Greek, Latin and After finishing his medical school at Hebrew, and the attainment of a Master of Arts Edinburgh, Morgan made the grand tour of degree. When a student overcame these admission Europe. His many friends in Britain provided him requirements, he was taught medieval medicine with letters of introduction to some of the most following the dictates of Galen and Paracelsus. important people on the continent. In Padua he There was no surgical training, at such schools, visited Giambattista Morgagni, the pathologist, surgery was to be done by the barber surgeons. who linked the pre-mortem symptoms of a patient Empiricism and research could not penetrate the with the post-mortem pathological findings. hallowed halls of these institutions. Morgagni received Morgan warmly, claiming By contrast, entrance requirements to kinship to him by virtue of the similarity of their Edinburgh were modernized. Courses of natural names. His route included visiting medical centers history and botany were required but an entrance in Paris, Geneva and Leyden, as well as Padua.11 examination could be taken even if no formal A letter of introduction addressed to courses were taken. Once matriculated, three-year Voltaire allowed him to visit the Philosopher at the courses were prescribed with lectures in anatomy, Chateau de Ferney in Geneva. Morgan’s journal chemistry, pharmacy, and the theory and practice recounted the visit. “As our coach drove into the of physics; during this training at least one year courtyard, M. Voltaire, himself, received us on the must be spent in the infirmary. Three months steps and addressed Morgan and Powell (his before the final medical examination, the student American Companion) in English.” Voltaire must pass an examination on literary knowledge scolded them for not staying for dinner, saying, and medical preparedness. Then the examination “You know, gentleman, that sitting together at a for the Baccalaureate in Medicine was given after table opens ye heart and makes one more sprightly three years of training. To get an M.D. degree, the and sociable.” Voltaire talked about the soul student must then present a thesis and defend it. (“does a dog have a soul?”) and admired English John Morgan’s thesis was on “pus” and he showed Authors. “The English have some fine authors and it to be derived from blood.4 they are, I swear, by God himself, the first nation After graduation, many students did not in Europe… They are not satisfied with mere directly make the transatlantic voyage home but appearance, they love investigation and truth and “walked the wards” of St. Thomas, St. despise superstition. I commend you gentlemen – Bartholomew’s and Guys Hospitals in London or go on, love truth and search diligently after it. journeyed to the Hotel Dieu in Paris or hospitals in Hate hypocrisy, hate masses, and above all hate Rheims or Leyden as a sort of internship. 4 the priests.11 At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War As the carriage sped down the road, a there were three million people in America, thinly sign on the roadside at the entrance of an inn read: spread over a thousand miles of coastline between University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal Volume 19 A Thistle Planted in America Z. Friedenberg “Deo Erexit Voltaire those charged by others. He would not deal with Behold the Pious Work of Vain Voltaire patients who demanded a cheaper fee. “Si Who never knew a God or said a Prayer” Populus vult decipi decipiatur. If people chose to be deceived, let them be deceived.” He would His European tour over, Morgan set sail give free advice to friends and their families, and for America having been showered with honors. their servants. Having studied medicine for fifteen He had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society years (apprenticeship, military service, medical of London, a Fellow of the College of Physicians school), “under the most celebrated masters in in Edinburgh, a licentiate of the Royal College of every branch of medicine, such fees are deserved.” Physicians in London, correspondent to the Also, I must conserve my time for preparing a Academie Royale de Chirugeons in Paris, and a course of lectures, leisure time and an undisturbed member of the Bells Lettres of Rome. When he mind.14 finished his courses in Edinburgh, his thoughts He decided to confine his efforts to the again dwelt on a new medical school in practice of medicine and do no surgery, nor would Philadelphia and he recalled his discussions with he engage in pharmacy.7 He made one exception, Shippen and the famous English physicians in that he would inoculate to prevent smallpox.
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