Background
Frank Pierce Foster was born on November 26, 1841 in Concord, New Hampshire, the son of William Parker Foster and Susan Webster Call, a niece of Daniel Webster.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
https://www.amazon.com/illustrated-encyclop%C3%A6dic-medical-dictionary-collateral/dp/B00B963BOG?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00B963BOG
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
https://www.amazon.com/Reference-book-practical-therapeutics-Pierce-Foster/dp/B00B6YOUEG?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00B6YOUEG
editor immunologist lexicographer physician
Frank Pierce Foster was born on November 26, 1841 in Concord, New Hampshire, the son of William Parker Foster and Susan Webster Call, a niece of Daniel Webster.
At the age of fifteen his life-work was suggested through an operation performed on his right forearm—the extirpation of a large birthmark—by Henry J. Bigelow.
Not long after this experience he registered as a pupil with Dr. C. P. Gage of Concord, with whom he studied the fundamental subjects of botany, chemistry, and anatomy.
In 1859 he attended lectures at the Boston Medical School but took his degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1862.
After taking his degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1862, he at once began his internate at the New York Hospital where his first distinction was a detail to treat the sick sailors of the friendly Russian squadron, then stationed in the harbor. With the expiration of his internate in 1864 he served as ship’s surgeon on a Pacific mail steamer for one voyage.
In 1865 he spent six months as acting assistant-surgeon in the United States army. In May 1866 he began his service as house physician of the New York Dispensary where he had a chance to witness the abuses of the then universal practise of arm-to-arm vaccination.
Foster’s battle for the introduction of animal lymph lasted for years, due to the fact that at the outset he was opposed by the medical societies and a majority of the physicians.
In 1870 he made a report to the New York Academy of Medicine, which was at the same time a sort of candidate’s thesis for membership, and won the latter only after a sharp conflict.
In 1872 he was awarded the alumni prize of his alma mater for his essay on animal vaccination and in the following year delivered by request an essay on the same theme before the British Medical Association—an almost undreamed-of honor for a young American physician.
In 1881 he was elected a fellow of the American Gynecological Society and for years held the appointment of surgeon to the Women’s Hospital.
In 1887 he founded the New York Clinical Society. In time his literary activity seems to have been exerted at the expense of his clinical career. After a term of service under Dr. Shrady of the Medical Record, he became connected with the publishing house of D. Appleton, taking over the editorship of the New York Medical Journal, which he held from 1880 until his death.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
Frank Foster became an earnest propagandist for the use of animal lymph, and at the early age of twenty- five was the pioneer and champion of the cause which forced him into controversy with the leaders of his profession.
In 1881 Foster was elected a fellow of the American Gynecological Society and in 1887 he founded and was a member of the New York Clinical Society. He was also a member and a chairman of the committee on nomenclature of the American Medical Association.
At the age of fifteen Foster had an operation performed on his right forearm - the extirpation of a large birthmark - by Henry J. Bigelow.
As a person, he had an extraordinary gift for making friends and was on terms of intimacy with an unusual number of the leaders of the profession.
Foster's wife was Georgiana Molleson, of New York, whom he married on October 18, 1869.