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Hosack was born in New York City, on August 31, 1769. He was son of Alexander and Jane (Arden) Hosack. His father, a native of Elgin, Scotland, came to America as a British artillery officer and fought at the capture of Louisbourg.
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Hosack was born in New York City, on August 31, 1769. He was son of Alexander and Jane (Arden) Hosack. His father, a native of Elgin, Scotland, came to America as a British artillery officer and fought at the capture of Louisbourg.
David entered Columbia College in 1786, but took his degree in arts at the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1789. He began his medical studies in New York under Nicholas Romayne, Philip Wright Post, and Samuel Bard, continued them in Philadelphia under Benjamin Rush.
In 1791 he began practice medicine in Alexandria, Va. , expecting that city to become the federal capital. The following year he sailed, in August, for further study abroad. Visiting his father's relatives in Scotland, he met socially most of the notables of Edinburgh and studied medicine and botany in that city. In London, later, he added mineralogy to his studies, and during his sojourn there read before the Royal Society a paper on vision which was published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1794. In that year he returned to America, bringing with him a mineralogical collection which he gave in 1821 to the college at Princeton. During the voyage he won distinction which contributed to his later professional reputation, by his successful handling of an outbreak of typhus among the steerage passengers.
In 1795 he became professor of botany at Columbia College and two years later, of materia medica, holding both positions until 1811. The success attending his treatment of his patients in the yellow fever epidemic of 1797 gained him a partnership with his former preceptor, Samuel Bard, to whose practice he succeeded. In 1804 he was attending surgeon at the Burr-Hamilton duel. He taught materia medica in the newly chartered College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1807-08, and in 1811 resigned from Columbia to become professor of the theory and practice of physic in the new institution. He held annual lectureships in materia medica and obstetrics, and from 1822 to 1826 was vice-president, but in the last-named year withdrew, with four other members of the faculty, to found the short-lived Rutgers Medical College, of which he was president till 1830.
In 1820 he was in great part responsible for the founding of Bellevue Hospital. With his pupil, later his partner, John W. Francis, Hosack established the American Medical and Philosophical Register, published 1810-14. He wrote a number of professional papers, some of them collected in Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science (vols. I, II, 1824; vol. III, 1830), and published A System of Practical Nosology (1819). His Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic, delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, was issued posthumously in 1838. He was also the author of A Tribute to the Memory of the Late Caspar Wistar, M. D. (1818), A Biographical Memoir of Hugh Williamson (1820), and a Memoir of DeWitt Clinton (1829), and was one of the editors of William Smith's History of the Late Province of New York (2 vols. , 1829 - 30), published by the New York Historical Society.
He died suddenly of apoplexy in the midst of his manifold activities.
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He was a founder of the New York Historical Society and its president, 1820-28, and was an incorporator, 1808, of the American Academy of Fine Arts.
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According to his pupil Francis, Hosack "was acknowledged to have been the most eloquent and impressive teacher of scientific medicine and clinical practice this country has produced" (Old New York, p. 84). "His house was the resort of the learned and the enlightened, " says Francis, adding that it was once observed that DeWitt Clinton, Bishop Hobart, and Dr. Hosack "were the tripod upon which our city stood. "
He married Catharine Warner of Princeton, who bore him one child. Hosack's first wife died only a few years after their marriage, and in 1797 he married Mary Eddy of Philadelphia, the adopted daughter of Caspar Wistar. She was the mother of nine children, one of whom was Alexander Eddy Hosack. After her death, Hosack married as his third wife Mrs. Magdalena Coster, a cousin of Philip Hone, in whose diary he figures frequently.