Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1378

GEORGE CHEYNE SHATTUCK (1783-1854) Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 . . . Being the dissertations to which the Boylston prize medals were adjudged. Farrand, Mallory, & Co. and Hastings Etheridge, & Bliss; Hopkins & Bayard, New York; and Hopkins & Earle, Philadelphia 1808 xvii [7] [25]-192 pp. 21 cm.

Shattuck's father was a prominent Massachusetts physician and named his son after George Cheyne, the English physician (see No. 761 ff.). Shattuck was educated at Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1807. He carried on an extensive family practice in Boston for many years, served as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society for four years, and took an active interest in public health. Shattuck also assisted Thacher (see No. 1123) in the preparation of the American medical biography. Shattuck wrote the three present essays very early in his medical career in competition for the Boylston Prize Questions offered by Harvard for the best dissertations on mortification, the structure and physiology of the skin, and dysentery. He won the prize in 1806 for "On the difference between Mortification produced by an external cause, and that which is produced by constitutional defect, the diagnosticks and proper mode of treatment of each." The following year he won the other two categories with "On the Structure and Physiology of the Skin with a view to the diagnosticks and cure of diseases usually denominated cutaneous" and "On the causes, diagnosticks, and cure of Biliary Concretions."

See Related Record(s): 761 1123

Cited references: Austin 1736

Gift of John Martin, M.D.