Physic and Physicians: The Annual Address Delivered before the Alabama State Medical Association, at the Capitol, December 10, 1849. Printed by order of the association
Montgomery, (AL): Job Office of the Alabama Journal, 1850. First edition. 8vo. 43 pp. Accompanying this pamphlet is a mid-19th century manuscript address (12mo, 12-pages), also titled “Physic and Physicians,” but without an author attribution. Owen, p. 803 (Curry copy). Ellison 689. OCLC locates two copies (New York Historical Society, National Library of Medicine). Removed from a bound volume (lacking outer wrappers, moderate foxing, newspaper clippings affixed to blank verso of final leaf). Very good copy of a scarce Baldwin pamphlet, with a related manuscript. Item #66870
William O. Baldwin (1818-1886), born near the site where Montgomery, Alabama, was incorporated the following year, received little early formal education, but “read” medicine with a local physician in his teens before graduating from Transylvania University with a medical degree in 1837. He returned home to Montgomery to begin his practice which flourished; he was a founding member of the Medical Association of Alabama, serving as its president in 1851, as well as president of the American Medical Association in 1868. In addition, he attended to the sick and wounded on both sides throughout the Civil War and helped found the First National Bank of Montgomery, serving as its president. He published regularly in medical periodicals, gained membership to a number of medical societies and professional organizations, and served as a member of the board of trustees of the Medical College of Alabama, 1872-1886.
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