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John Beale Davidge was born in 1768 at Annapolis, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Captain Davidge of the British army and Honor Howard of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
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John Beale Davidge was born in 1768 at Annapolis, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Captain Davidge of the British army and Honor Howard of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
When Davidge was a small boy his father died, and his mother resolved to apprentice him to a cabinetmaker, but his ambition to study medicine was gratified by aid afforded by friends and by the legacy of some slaves on the death of a relative. He entered St. John’s College, where he received his Master of Arts degree in 1789, and shortly afterward began the study of medicine with Drs. James and William Murray of Annapolis. Continuing his education in Edinburgh, he specialized in anatomy, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Glasgow in 1793.
For a short time Davidge practised medicine in Birmingham, England, but soon removed to Baltimore.
He played a prominent role in fighting the great epidemic of yellow fever in Baltimore (1797) grid his views and work have been widely quoted (Transactions of the International Medical Congress, 1876).
At the foundation of the Baltimore General Dispensary (1801) he was one of the attending physicians.
From 1802 to 1807 he delivered private courses of medical lectures, and in the latter year he was associated with Drs. James Cocke and John Shaw in obtaining a charter for a medical school, known as the College of Medicine of Maryland.
When the charter for the University of Maryland was issued (1813), this school became the medical department, and Davidge occupied the chairs of anatomy and surgery until his death.
For a part of this time he was also dean.
He edited the Baltimore Philosophical Journal and Review, a quarterly journal of which but a single issue appeared (1823).
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"His lectures were models of simple elegance, ” but “the moment he took his pen in hand he seemed to forget the English idiom, ” his style being obscure, stiff, and full of obsolete spellings and expressions". (Lunsford P. Yandell)
In 1793 Davidge married Wilhelmina Stuart of the Firth of Solway, several years his senior. His first wife dying, he married Mrs. Rebecca Troup Polk, widow of Josiah Polk of Harford County, Maryland.