History of the Medical College of Georgia

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Notes CHAPTER ONE 1. Ellis Merton Coulter, ed., TheJournal of Peter Gordon, 1732-1735 (Athens, 1963), 36; Ellis Merton Coulter and Albert Berry Saye, eds., A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1949), 11. 2. Harold E. Davis, The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1776 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976), 86. Davis points out the distinctions drawn in the old world among the doctor of physic, the surgeon, and the apothecary—distinctions that blurred in America, where all were granted the tide of "doctor" without discrimination. George Fenwick Jones has recently isolated the man whom he calls "Georgia's first bona fide physician /' Christian Ernst Thilo, who came into the Salzburger settlement at Ebenezer in 1738. "Thilo soon became chronically sick," failed to attend the German church services, "and caused much disorder with his outlandish religious beliefs." See Jones and Renate Wilson, eds. and trans., Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, vol.5 (Athens, Ga., 1980), xvi. 3. David T. Morgan, "Judaism in Eighteenth-Century Georgia," Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (Spring 1974): 42-43 (hereafter cited as GHQ)\ B. H. Levy, "The Early History of Georgia'sJews," in H. H. Jackson and Phinizy Spalding, eds., Forty Years of Diversity (Athens, Ga., 1984), 166-67, 172. 4. Davis, Fledgling Province, 86; Sarah B. Gober Temple and Kenneth Coleman , Georgia Journeys (Athens, Ga., 1961), 26. 5. Joseph loor Waring, "Colonial Medicine in Georgia and South Carolina," GHQ_ (Supplement 1975): 144-45, 147,151;Gerald L. Gates, "A Medical History of Georgia: The First Hundred Years, 1733-1833" (Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1976), chap. 1. 6. Waring, "Colonial Medicine," 144, 146;Gerald L. Gates, "The Seasoning ': Disease and Death Among the First Colonists of Georgia," GHQ 64 (Summer 1980): 146-58. For more detailed accounts of the trusteeship period, see Phinizy Spalding, Oglethorpe in America (Chicago, 1977); Ken227 228 Notes to Pages 4-6 neth Coleman, Colonial Georgia (New York, 1976); and James Ross McCain, Georgia as a Proprietary Province (Boston, 1917). 7. Kenneth Coleman, TheAmerican Revolution in Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1958), 39-54; Kenneth Coleman, gen. ed., A History of Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1977), 67. 8. Edward J. Cashin, The Story of Augusta (Augusta, Ga., 1980), 13; Coleman, A History of Georgia, 87. Cashin, both in his text and notes, is definitive in correcting the long-held misconception that Augusta's foundingdates from 1735. 9. Charles Edgeworth Jones, Education in Georgia (Washington, D.C., 1889), 17-18; Robert L. Meriwether, The Expansion of South Carolina (Kingsport, Tenn., 1940), and Ellis Merton Coulter, Old Petersburg and the Broad River Valley of Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1965), are particularly good on the settlement of the upcountry. See also the 1796Petersburg appointments and prescription book and the 1798 business ledger from Augusta, both held in the Special Collections, Medical College of Georgia Library, Augusta(hereafter cited as MCG Special Collections). James Charles Cordle's "An AnteBellum Academy: The Academy of Richmond County, 1783-1863"(Master 's thesis, University of Georgia, 1935) contains some useful information but is, on the whole, disappointing. 10. Luther Grandy, "The History of Medicine and Surgery in Georgia," reprinted from Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, 3d series, 12 (1895-96): 4. This item, in offprint form, can be consulted in the libraries of the Georgia Historical Society (Savannah) and MCG Special Collections. 11. S. G. McLendon, History of the Public Domain of Georgia (Atlanta, 1924); Coleman,A History of Georgia, 119-20, 131-34. 12. Thomas G. Dyer, The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History, 17851985 (Athens, Ga., 1985), chaps. 1 and 2; Gates, "A Medical History of Georgia"; Phinizy Spalding, "The Development of Material Culture in Georgia: An Overview," in Jane Webb Smith, ed., Georgia's Legacy (Athens, Ga, 1985), 23-28. 13. Cecilia Mettler, "History of the Georgia School of Medicine," Phi Chi Quarterly 34 (January 1937): 17. Mettler says only one degreed physician, a Dr. William Cocke (Pennsylvania, 1798), was in Georgia in 1800 (ibid.). Victor Hugo Bassett's research showed him thatJohn Maxwell, Jr., ofBryan County, "was the first Georgia doctor to have a medical license from a licensing body authorized by law in America." Maxwell took his exam in NewJersey in 1793. See Bassett, "Plantation Medicine,"Journal of the Med icalAssociation of Georgia 29 (March 1940): 119 (hereafter cited as JMAG). 14. John Pitts Corry, "A History of Medicine in Georgia," incomplete typescript, A. W. Calhoun Medical Library of Emory University,Atlanta, 1931...