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•^^Zeuch, Medical Practice in Illinois, 396-406; Carl E. Black, "Illinois
College Medical School," Bulletin of the Society of Medical History
of Chicago, I, 2 (August, 1912), 171-95.
^^ Rush Medical College became affiliated with the University of
Chicago in 1898 and in 1924 was incorporated as its Medical Department.
After June 1, 1942, its undergraduate courses were discontinued
and it became Rush Graduate School of Medicine.
•^^
Packard, History of Medicine, II, 870-1.
^^ Henry B. Favill, "Early Medical Days in Wisconsin," Bulletin of
the Society of Medical History of Chicago, I (1911), 101-4; Packard,
History of Medicine, II, 903-4.
58 Isaac Reed, The Christian Traveler (New York, 1828), 224.
'^^
Juettner, "Rise of Medical Colleges," 489-90.
®" Cincinnati National Republican and Ohio Political Register, January
20, 1824.
®^ A factor which helped to account for the small number of trained
eastern physicians found in the Midwest was, of course, their relative
scarcity even in the East, and the consequent esteem with which they
were regarded. Few indeed were the trained physicians who would wish
to give up a settled practice for a life in the "wilderness."
^^ Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines (3 volumes,
New York and Cambridge, 1930, 1938), I, 199.
^^ For these see bibliographical note.
^^ Drake's temporary acceptance of the weird fact of spontaneous
combustion of the human body probably resulted from an article by
M. Marc, published in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales. He translated
and summarized the article in the Western Journal, II (1829),
130-41. The Dictionnaire reported a number of "well authenticated"
cases. Marc and others arrived at certain general conclusions: women
were more subject to this accident than men; the aged more susceptible
than the young; inactive and fleshy ("polysarcous") persons were good
subjects; heavy drinkers particularly good; most accidents of this sort
transpired in winter when the atmosphere was cold. Sparks caused by
the "idio-electricity" in animals set off the naturally-produced hydrogen
and its compounds. Drake commented that he was unable to say
why more cases had been recorded on the Continent than in the United
States. The fact that he recorded no cases in his Diseases of the Interior
Valley might indicate that there were none.
NOTES: CHAPTER FOUR
^ In Rosenstein, Theory and Practice of Homeopathy, 26.
^ Dr. William H. Loppe, "Quacks and Quackery in Indiana," Indiana
State Medical Society Transactions, 1883, 118.
^ Dr. George Rowland, "Medical Legislation," ihid., 172.