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Text Book of a Course of Lectures, on the Theory and Practice of Physic, Vol. 2: For the Use of the Medical Students of Harvard University (Classic Reprint)
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As 'the first part of this text book relates to the general theory of medicine, this second part may. Be considered as relating to the practice. This distinction 19 made, however, rather 1n reference to the title of the professorship I hold, and to the duties belonging to it, than to the exact character of the two parts of the work. The second palt is represented as relating to practice, because it will describe particular diseases, and the treatment adapted to each; yet it will admit and require many theoretical discussions.
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A Syllabus of the Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College to the Medical Students of Harvard University (Classic Reprint)
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I congratulate you, my young friend, on having arrived at the period on which your eyes have long been fixed; the period at which your education is terminated, and at which you are to enter upon the serious business of your profession. Your education, I say, is terminated. You are told, indeed, that you must continue to educate yourself through life. With out quarrelling about words, I think this does not present the subject in its true point of view. I agree that you are bound to study and to increase your knowledge as long as you continue to be engaged in your profession. But you are now educated; you are brought out. You are now placed on the course where you are to run your race. You look at the objects before you from a new point. You have put on your working-dress, and you are to go to business.
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Jackson was born on October 3, 1777, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the brother of Charles and Patrick Tracy Jackson and the fifth of the nine children of Hannah, daughter of Patrick Tracy, merchant of Newburyport, and Jonathan Jackson, colonial banker and merchant, descended from Edward Jackson of London who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1643.
Education
Despite the somewhat straitened circumstances of his family, James attended the Boston Latin School, Dummer Academy, and later Harvard College, where he met his lifelong friend John Pickering of Salem and John Collins Warren, whose father, John Warren, was undoubtedly responsible for directing his interests to the study of medicine. After receiving the degree of A. B. in 1796, he entered the Harvard Medical School, where he came under the guidance of Benjamin Waterhouse, professor of the theory and practice of physic, Aaron Dexter, and J. Gorman. In December 1797 he apprenticed himself to Edward Augustus Holyoke, physician of Salem, and thus became one of the many who owed their instruction to this remarkable man. He received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1799, that of M. B. in 1802, and in 1809 upon passing examinations and having his thesis accepted, that of M. D. The thesis, Remarks on the Brunonian System, he dedicated to Holyoke.
Career
In October 1799 Jackson obtained a free passage abroad on the ship of his brother Henry, and remained nearly a year in London, during which time he served as dresser at St. Thomas's Hospital, studying anatomy there under Cline, and under Sir Astley Cooper at Guy's. From Woodville he learned the technique of vaccination, which had been introduced by Jenner only a few months before. Returning to Boston in the autumn of 1800, he "began business, " as he says in his diary, on October 1, and on October 11 one finds him advertising in the Columbian Centinel that he is prepared to vaccinate. His knowledge of the new procedure evidently attracted many patients, and he was the first in America to investigate vaccination in a scientific spirit. The results of his experiences were published in reserved and guarded terms in the Columbian Centinel (February 14, and April 8, 1801). He was appointed physician to the Boston Dispensary in 1802, and later identified himself with the movement for the reorganization and rebuilding of the Harvard Medical School (1810). In 1812 he was appointed to the Hersey Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Physic in succession to Benjamin Waterhouse, who had been the first to hold this chair. He was largely responsible also for the foundation of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the plans for which were made in 1810, although it was not actually opened until 1821. As a physician Jackson exerted great influence both locally and in America at large. He had been brought up during a period of transition; in his early years there were few physicians, superstition was widespread, and there were almost no facilities for the education of students in medicine. Having seen the older schools of Europe, he was able to formulate plans for the development of American medical education. As a lecturer he was attractive and in his teaching he was essentially a therapeutic nihilist, believing firmly in the "vis medicatrix naturae. " Jackson gave an excellent description of the symptoms of appendicitis without appreciating that it was the appendix which was at fault. His many case books show his remarkable alertness and are filled with shrewd clinical observations. Jackson never recovered from the overwhelming loss of his first wife and he resigned his post at the medical school in consequence. Jackson's Letters to a Young Physician (1855) are filled with penetrating advice and are written in an attractive literary style which has caused them to remain one of the classics of American medical literature. They were followed by a sequel Another Letter to a Young Physician (1861). He also published a useful syllabus, On the Theory and Practice of Physic (1825). Jackson died on August 27, 1867, in Boston.
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Connections
On October 3, 1801, Jackson married Elizabeth Cabot, daughter of Andrew Cabot of Beverly, to whom he had long been engaged. She died in November 1817, and he soon afterwards married her sister Sarah. By his first wife he had nine children; the eldest son, James Jackson junior (1810-1834), had a remarkable career.