John Gorham (physician)
John Gorham (24 February 1783, Boston, Massachusetts - 29 March 1829, Boston) was an American physician and educator.
Biography[edit]
He graduated from Harvard in 1801, with a B.A., and later received two medical degrees there (M.B., 1804, after serving for three years as an apprentice to John Warren, whose daughter Mary he married in 1808,[1] and M.D., 1811). Between his medical degrees, he studied chemistry privately in London with Friedrich Accum, and then with Thomas Hope at the University of Edinburgh. He opened a medical practice in Boston in 1806, and maintained it throughout his academic career.[1] In 1809 he was appointed adjunct professor of chemistry and materia medica in Harvard, and in 1816 was made professor of chemistry and mineralogy. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1810.[2]
Gorham resigned his academic position in 1827 to give more attention to his thriving medical practice. He was librarian (1814-1818), treasurer (1818-1823) and recording secretary (1823-1826), for the Massachusetts Medical Society.[1][3]
Works[edit]
- Inaugural Address (1817),[4] which prompted a letter of commendation from John Adams
- Elements of Chemical Science (1819)
- “Contribution on Sugar” in Thomas's Annual Philosophy (1817)
- “Chemical Analysis of Indian Corn,” The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 9(1820):320-28.
He was a founder, and for 15 years an editor, of The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, where he published several papers.
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c Horrocks, Thomas A. (1999). "Gorham, John". American National Biography (online ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200341. (subscription required)
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter G" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Channing, Walter (1823). The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery: And Collateral Branches of Science. Wells and Lilly.
- ^ Channing, Walter (1817). The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery: And Collateral Branches of Science. Wells and Lilly.
References[edit]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- Newell, Lyman C. (1931). "Gorham, John". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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