Table Of ContentBIOG PHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF MEDICAL TRAVEL A OTIORS
The Americas and Canada
Edward A. Martin
With a Foreword by
Peter Froggatt
The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston•Queenston•Lampeter
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Martin, Edward A.
A biographical encyclopedia of medical travel authors : the Americas and Canada /
Edward A. Martin ; with a foreword by Peter Froggatt.
v. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7734-3681-7 (v. 1 : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7734-3683-1 (v. 2 : alk.
paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7734-3685-5 (v. 3 : alk paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7734-3687-9 (v. 4 :
alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7734-3689-3 (v. 5 : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7734-3691-6 (v.
6 : alk. paper) 1. Physicians--Biography--Encyclopedias. 2. Pharmacists--Biography--
Encyclopedias. 3. Naturalists--Biography--Encyclopedias. 4. Travelers--Biography--
Encyclopedias. 5. Authors--Biography--Encyclopedias. 6. Medical expeditions--
America--History--Encyclopedias. 7. Medical expeditions--Canada--History--
Encyclopedias. 8. America--Description and travel--Encyclopedias. 9. Canada--
Description and travel—Encyclopedias. I. Title.
R134.M325 2010
610.92'2--dc22
2010006077
hors serie.
A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
Front cover: Bird illustration taken from a painting by Breon O'Casey of Penzance, Cornwall,
reproduced with his permission. Photographed by Richard Kingston of Dublin
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To my wife Mary Elizabeth Bewley, 1929-2008
What have I done today worth recording? . .
nothing but eat, sleep, drink, think, walk, talk,
laugh, quaff, recite, indite, button, unbutton.'
Jacob Rhett Motte, Charleston Goes to Harvard:
The Diary of a Harvard Student of 1831, 17 May
`Goodbye France, goodbye mother and sister,
goodbye friends waving from afar whose faces we
can no longer recognise; again goodbye my
country; we are at sea. I am giving up these
precious gifts without feeling anything but
confused regrets. A superficial emotion stifles that
deep sadness which first departure should cause. I
think only of this long trip which is beginning; of
the rich powerful life that I am going to
contemplate.'
Victor Tixier (1815-85), Voyage aux prairies
Osage, Louisiana et Missouri, 1839-40 (1844)
`The greatness of America has to come. Time will
be when America, perhaps with Australian lands,
will be arbiter of the civilised world — if it likes.'
Thomas Gordon Hake (1809-95), Memoirs of
Eighty Years (1892)
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Foreword by Sir Peter Froggatt
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Acknowledgements vii
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Preface ix
The Biographies
THE AMERICAS(cid:9) 3
CANADA(cid:9) 307
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Bibliography and Further Reading 357
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Index of Entries 369
ABBREVIATIONS
AB or BA(cid:9) Bachelor of Arts
Aberd.(cid:9) Aberdeen University
AM(cid:9) Master of Arts
ANB(cid:9) American National Biography
B.Sc.(cid:9) Bachelor of Science
Bart.(cid:9) Baronet
BL(cid:9) British Library
BO(cid:9) Bibliotheca Osleriana
Cantab.(cid:9) Cambridge University
CBE(cid:9) Commander, Order of British Empire
CM(cid:9) Master of Surgery
CODFL(cid:9) Concise Oxford Dictionary of French Literature
DAB(cid:9) Dictionary of American Biography
DCB(cid:9) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
DNB(cid:9) Dictionary of National Biography
D.Ph.(cid:9) Doctor of Philosophy
DSO(cid:9) Distinguished Service Order
Dubl.(cid:9) Dublin University
EB(cid:9) Encyclopcedia Britannica
Edin.(cid:9) Edinburgh University
EI (cid:9) Encyclopaedia of Ireland
FGS(cid:9) Fellow of the Geographical Society
FLS(cid:9) Fellow of the Linnean Society
FRCP(cid:9) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
FRCS(cid:9) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
FRCSE(cid:9) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
FRCSI(cid:9) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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FRS(cid:9) Fellow of the Royal Society
FSA(cid:9) Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
Glasg.(cid:9) Glasgow University
GP(cid:9) general practitioner
HMS(cid:9) His or Her Majesty's Ship
HRH(cid:9) His Royal Highness
KCB(cid:9) Knight Commander of the Bath
LCP(cid:9) License of the College of Physicians
LCPS(cid:9) Licentiate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
LFRCP(cid:9) Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
LLB.(cid:9) Bachelor of Laws
LI.D.(cid:9) Doctor of Laws
LRCPI(cid:9) Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
LSA(cid:9) Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries
MA(cid:9) Master of Arts
MB(cid:9) Bachelor of Medicine
MD(cid:9) Doctor of Medicine
MP(cid:9) Member of Parliament
MRCP(cid:9) Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London
MRCPI(cid:9) Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
MRCS(cid:9) Member Royal College of Surgeons of England
NRHSDG(cid:9) New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening
OBE(cid:9) Order of the British Empire
ODNB(cid:9) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxon.(cid:9) Oxford University
Penn.(cid:9) Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D.(cid:9) Doctor of Philosophy
PLFRCS(cid:9) Plarr's Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of
Surgeons
RAMC(cid:9) Royal Army Medical Corps
RN(cid:9) Royal Navy
St And.(cid:9) St Andrew's University
Sc.D.(cid:9) Doctor of Science
TCD(cid:9) Trinity College Dublin
VC(cid:9) Victoria Cross
WL(cid:9) Wellcome Library
