Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1331

JAMES JACKSON (1777-1867) Letters to a young physician just entering upon practice. Phillips, Sampson and Co. 1856 4th ed. iv, 344 pp. 18.1 cm.

The first chairman of clinical medicine at Harvard and, while still a medical student, an ardent supporter of the newly-developed smallpox vaccination, James Jackson played an important role in the development of medical care and medical education in Massachusetts. Jackson studied under Sir Astley Paston Cooper (see No. 1224 ff.) at Guy's Hospital in London where he formed a lasting friendship with another American student, John Collins Warren (see No. 1340 ff.). Together they cooperated in a number of professional enterprises including the pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the founding of the Medical Improvement Society of Boston. Letters to a young physician, dedicated to Warren, is both a philosophic and practical discourse on the practice of medicine.

See Related Record(s): 1224 1340

Cited references: Cushing J6 (1855 ed.); Osler 3062 (1855 ed.); Waller 5084 (1855 ed.)