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Elisha Bartlett was born on October 6, 1804 in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
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Elisha Bartlett was born on October 6, 1804 in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
He was educated in Smithfield, Uxbridge, and a friend's school in New York. After studying medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Willard of Uxbridge, Dr. Green and Dr. Heywood of Worcester, and Dr. Levi Wheaton of Providence, he earned an M. D. degree at Brown Medical School in 1826.
In 1827, he settled in Lowell, where he lived for nearly twenty of his remaining twenty-eight years of medical activity. In 1829 he married Elizabeth Slater of Smithfield, Rhode Island. When he had been a citizen for nine years he was elected the first mayor of the new city (1836). From this will be seen that he had an interest in public service. He held his first teaching position in 1832, when not yet twenty-eight years old, as professor of pathological anatomy and materia medica in the Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, Massachussets, then a strong school which turned out more graduates in medicine than the Harvard Medical School.
A list of Bartlett's teaching positions in the succeeding years is a long one: professor of theory and practise of medicine at Transylvania University, Lexington, 1841, also 1846; professor of the theory and practise of medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1844-46; the same position at the University of Louisville, 1849-50; professor of the institutes and practise of medicine in New York University, 1850-52; and finally professor of materia medica and medical jurisprudence in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1852-55. He had also lectured on the topics of materia medica and obstetrics at the Vermont Medical College in the spring and summer months from 1843 to 1852. It was said of him that he could make the dryest and most barren subject interesting.
Bartlett began his career as a medical writer in the Monthly Journal of Medical Literature and American Medical Students' Gazette, only three numbers of which were issued. Then in July 1832 he was associated with Dr. A. L. Pierson and Dr. J. B. Flint in the Medical Magazine, which was published monthly in Boston for the succeeding three years. Independently he printed in 1831 a small book entitled Sketches of the Character and Writings of Eminent Living Surgeons and Physicians of Paris, translated from the French of J. L. H. Peisse. It contained the lives of nine French physicians and gave an attractive insight into the history of medicine in Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Bartlett's chief work was his treatise on The Fevers in the United States (1842), reprinted in 1847, 1852, and 1857, the last after his death. In it he gave a remarkably accurate description of typhoid fever, which in its main outlines cannot be improved to-day. It was one of the most noteworthy contributions to medicine of the first half of the nineteenth century. In his Essay on the Philosophy of Medicine (1844), he shows himself to be an acute and thoughtful observer; he applies deductive reasoning to medical problems. It is called by William Osler "a classic in American medical literature".
Four years later appeared An Inquiry into the Degree of Certainty of Medicine, and into the Nature and Extent of Its Power over Disease. It was a small pamphlet of eighty-four pages that expounded views that were in advance of the times, shocking some of the conservative members of the profession, who preferred to be governed in their ideas by tradition and not by what they saw. Bartlett published, in 1849, A Discourse on the Life and Labors of Dr. H. Charles Wells, the Discoverer of the Philosophy of Dew, and the next year a brochure entitled History, Diagnosis and Treatment of Edematous Laryngitis. Among his occasional addresses, in which he was at his best, a lecture delivered in 1843, on The Sense of the Beautiful, was a plea for the education of the faculty of medicine, and another, The Head and the Heart, or the Relative Importance of Intellectual and Moral Education, was an exhortation for a higher tone in social and political morality.
One of his last publications was A Discourse on the Times, Character, and Writings of Hippocrates, delivered as an introductory address before the trustees, faculty, and students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at the opening of the session of 1852-53. This was considered a masterpiece of medical biography, depicting the founder of medicine in the different phases of his life with the utmost clearness and interest. At the close of the session of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, of 1853-54, a nervous malady from which Bartlett had been suffering, the exact nature of which is not known, became worse. He retired to his birthplace, Smithfield, and after a protracted illness, during which he became paralyzed without impairment of his mental faculties, he died at the comparatively early age of fifty.
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He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1845.
Bartlett was in his mental outlook and his power of expression far in advance of most of the men of his time. Most instructors were then everyday practitioners who were content to impart to their students the facts they had gathered, without comment or general application. Bartlett was a man of vision, of wide interests, who saw the relation of medicine to the affairs of the community, and could forecast the trend of doctrines and evaluate them.
In 1829 he married Elizabeth Slater of Smithfield.