Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1248

JOSEPH ADAMS GALLUP (1769-1849) Outlines of the institutes of medicine. Otis Broaders, and Company 1839 Vol. I: [4] xx [21]-416 pp.; Vol. II: 460 pp. 22.3 cm.

Gallup, an influential Vermont medical educator and long-time president of the state medical society, was already actively practicing medicine at the age of twenty-one. Eight years later he received a medical degree from Dartmouth and in 1820 he joined the faculty of the Castleton Medical College where he served as professor of the theory and practice of medicine and materia medica and also as president of the school. He later was on the medical faculty of the University of Vermont and was instrumental in establishing a medical school at Woodstock, where he taught until 1834. A noted lecturer and educator, Gallup was asked by "all the students present of two classes, at different Medical Institutions" (Address, p. [ii]) to publish his lectures on the principles and practice of medicine. Rather than simply publishing his lecture notes, he organized them into a comprehensive system he called the institutes of medicine and defined as "that science, which embraces a knowledge of diseases, and their remedies" (p. 21). The frontispiece portrait usually present in Volume I is missing from this set.