Background
James Aitken Meigs was born on July 31, 1829 in Philadelphia. He was the son of John G. and Mary A. Meigs. His parents were of English, Scotch, and German descent; his father, known as "Honest John, " was a shoe merchant.
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Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the Third Edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls"
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Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Philadelphia College of Medicine: At the Annual Commencement, March 2nd, 1859 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Philadelphia College of Medicine: At the Annual Commencement, March 2nd, 1859 To a considerable extent scientific investigation is not only compatible with the active, daily duties of the physician, but in reality by inculcating close and accurate habits of observation very often becomes a guarantee of success in the performance of those duties. The truth of this you may learn from the lives and labors of Hunter, Baillie. Prichard, Morton, Drake and many others whose names I might mention. The celebrated Doctor Baillie of London was frequent ly advised to abandon his anatomical pursuits lest they should interfere with his prosperity as a practitioner. This he wisely refused to do, and ultimately this very knowledge rendered him vastly superior to those who attempted to compete with him in practice. Sir Hans Sloan, the favorite physician of Queen Anne was regarded as one of the greatest naturalists of his day yet it is te corded of him that his great scientific attainments did not act as a bar to his professional advancement, for his practice was very extensive. John Hunter, the surgeon-naturalist of the 18th century, and the author as he has justly been called, of a new era in the history of our profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Correlation of the Physical and Vital Forces: An Inaugural Address Introductory to the Course on Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Delivered October 12, 1868 (Classic Reprint)
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A Brief Notice of Dr. Martyn Paine's Work on the "Institutes of Medicine": With Some Remarks on the Theory of the Correlation of the Physical and Vital Forces (Classic Reprint)
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James Aitken Meigs
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Education
After preparation at the Mount Vernon Grammar School and at the Boys' Central High School, James entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated with high honors in 1851.
Career
Meigs began general practice and became especially noted for work in obstetrics. From 1854 to 1862, he served as professor of climatology and physiology in the Franklin Institute and, from 1856 to 1859, as librarian of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. During these years, most of his papers on medical and scientific data appeared. His interests seem to have touched a wide range of subjects; in 1855 he contributed a paper entitled, "Relation of Atomic Heat to Crystalline Form, " to the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences; and to the North American Medical and Chirurgical Review for 1859, "Some Remarks on the Methods of Studying and Teaching Physiology. " After several years' assistantship to the professor of physiology at the Philadelphia College of Medicine, he was appointed in 1857 to the chair of Institutes of Medicine in that school. In 1859, he transferred to a professorship on the same subject at Pennsylvania Medical College and was appointed physician and clinical lecturer in the Philadelphia Hospital at Blockley, but resigned his teaching position at the outbreak of the Civil War. For thirteen years, beginning in 1855, he was also a physician in the department of pulmonary diseases at Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables. In 1868 he became a professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence at Jefferson Medical College, and appears to have been especially successful in physiological demonstrations and in lectures on the eye and ear. The same year, he was chosen as physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital. In 1871, he was elected president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, in which he had successively acted as secretary and vice-president. He also served several years on the board of trustees of the Polytechnic College of the State of Pennsylvania. During the latter years of his life, his duties as a teacher and practitioner occupied the most of his attention. After a short sickness which was diagnosed as malaria, died of blood poisoning.
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Outside of the medical profession, Meigs is perhaps best known for his anthropological work, which reached its climax in the "Catalogue of Human Crania in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia"; this formed a special supplement of 103 pages to the Proceedings for 1856. He also contributed an article on "The Cranial Characteristics of the Races of Men" to J. C. Nott and G. R. Gliddon, Indigenous Races of the Earth (1856), and edited the American edition of W. S. Kirkes's Manual of Physiology (1857). Papers by him were also published in the Medical Examiner and in the American Journal of Medical Sciences.
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Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Philadelphia College of Medicine: At the Annual Commencement, March 2nd, 1859 (Classic Reprint)
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Correlation of the Physical and Vital Forces: An Inaugural Address Introductory to the Course on Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Delivered October 12, 1868 (Classic Reprint)
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Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the Third Edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls"
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A Brief Notice of Dr. Martyn Paine's Work on the "Institutes of Medicine": With Some Remarks on the Theory of the Correlation of the Physical and Vital Forces (Classic Reprint)
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Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Philadelphia College of Medicine: At the Annual Commencement, March 2nd, 1859 (Classic Reprint)
Connections
Meigs never married but lived with his aged father.
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