Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1518

MARTYN PAINE (1794-1877) Letters on the cholera asphyxia as it has appeared in the City of New York. Collins & Hannay 1832 viii [9]-160 pp. 23.7 cm.

Paine, founder of the New York University Medical School, was a native of Williamstown, Vermont. He studied medicine with both John Warren (see No. 1117) and his son, John Collins Warren (see No. 1340 ff.), before receiving the M.D. degree from Harvard in 1816. Paine practiced in Montreal until 1822 when he returned to New York City to teach and practice for the remainder of his career. He was the leader of a small group that founded the New York University Medical School in 1838 and served as professor of the institutes of medicine and materia medica for ten years and professor of therapeutics and materia medica for seventeen years. Cholera appeared in New York City before it reached Boston and Paine's primary purpose in writing these ten letters, which were addressed to John Collins Warren, was to share his experience in treating and managing the disease. Four of the letters were published in Boston newspapers and others appeared in medical journals of the day. One of the letters reports the results of the first autopsies to be performed in the United States on cholera victims. Other letters present a general view of the nature of cholera, its symptoms, treatment, and preventive measures that may be taken to avoid contracting the dread disease. This copy of the work was the author's presentation copy to the Hon. Felix Grundy.

See Related Record(s): 1117 1340