Nicholas Romayne
Nicholas Romayne | |
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| Born | September 1756 |
| Died | July 21, 1817 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | First President of the New York Medical Society |
Nicholas Romayne (September 1756, in Hackensack, New Jersey – 21 July 1817, in New York City) was a physician of the United States.
Biography
He was the son of a
Leyden, and on his return settled in Philadelphia, and then in New York City
, where he practised his profession.
He embarked in the
in 1797. He was seized and imprisoned, and subsequently again visited Europe.He was the first president of the New York Medical Society, and of the
New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which he was a founder, and in which he taught anatomy and the institutes of medicine.[1][2] His students included Valentine Seaman, who mapped the 1795 yellow fever epidemic in New York and introduced the smallpox vaccine to the United States in 1799.[3]
Dr. John W. Francis said of him: “He was unwearied in toil and of mighty energy, dexterous in legislative bodies, and at one period of his career was vested with almost all the honors the medical profession can bestow.”
Romayne published an address before the students of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons on The Ethnology of the Red Man in America (New York, 1808).
References
- PMID 5328993.
- PMID 19312768.
- ^ "First X, Then Y, Now Z : Landmark Thematic Maps - Medicine". Princeton University Library. 2012. Archived from the original on 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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