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John King was born on January 01, 1813 in New York City, New York, United States. His father was Harman King; his mother was Marguerite La Porte, the daughter of Marquis La Porte who came to America with Lafayette.
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Urological Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of Numerous Technical Terms
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Woman: Her Diseases And Their Treatment
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The Microscopist's Companion; a Popular Manual of Practical Microscopy: To Which Is Added a Glossary of the Principal Terms Used in Microscopic Science
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THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS, PATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES.
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The American dispensatory
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American Eclectic Obstetrics
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The American Family Physician, or Domestic Guide to Health: For the Use of Physicians, Families, Plantations, Ships, Travelers, Etc (Classic Reprint)
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John King
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Early in his college life John's bent toward science appeared and in 1835, at twenty-two, he lectured before the Mechanics Institute of New York City on magnetism and its relation to geology, astronomy, and to physiology, and repeated the lectures later in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was throughout his life an indefatigable student, a clear, pleasant expositor, with a sense of language and of accurate statement. As a medical student in the Reformed Medical College of the City of New York he came under the influence of Wooster Beach, a leading physician who was working to secure a reform in therapeutics to less drastic methods. King graduated from the college in 1838.
Career
King taught the school settled first in New Bedford but in 1845 moved to Sharpsburg, Kentucky, and later to Owingsville. In 1848 he was secretary of the first national convention of Reform Medical Practitioners, which was held in Cincinnati. At this convention the name "Eclectic" was officially adopted.
King moved to Cincinnati, whither the Worthington Reform Medical College, after its failure in Worthington, Ohio, had been transferred and reestablished under the name of the Eclectic Medical Institute. He went the next year (1849) to Memphis, Tennessee, as professor of materia medica, and therapeutics, but in 1851 he returned to Cincinnati to become professor of obstetrics in the Eclectic Medical Institute. With the exception of a few years he remained there until his death.
As a pharmacologist King introduced into general use the resin of mandrake, podophyllin, that of macrotys, and the oleo-resin of iris, the first and perhaps the best of the resin class of drugs. He also introduced hydrastis and sanguinaria. He prepared these and other drugs himself, and a collection of his apparatus, together with samples of these and other drugs, is to be found in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. He had a wide knowledge of botany and discovered many of the active principles of native plants.
His most notable work, The American Dispensatory (1852), during his lifetime passed through eighteen editions. In this he preserved the knowledge of the therapeutic principles of American plants and crystallized the therapeutics of the eclectic school. There followed in rapid succession American Obstetrics (1853); Women: Their Diseases and Treatment (1858) and The Microscopist's Companion (1859). The Coming Freeman (1886) was written in behalf of laboring men.
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The American Family Physician, or Domestic Guide to Health: For the Use of Physicians, Families, Plantations, Ships, Travelers, Etc (Classic Reprint)
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The Microscopist's Companion; a Popular Manual of Practical Microscopy: To Which Is Added a Glossary of the Principal Terms Used in Microscopic Science
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American Eclectic Obstetrics
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Urological Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of Numerous Technical Terms
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Woman: Her Diseases And Their Treatment
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- THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS, PATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES.
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The American Family Physician, or Domestic Guide to Health: For the Use of Physicians, Families, Plantations, Ships, Travelers, Etc (Classic Reprint)
Membership
King was president of the National Eclectic Medical Association in 1878 and first president of the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association.
Personality
King was an early Abolitionist, did much to help poor children, championed the cause of labor, and fought attempts to license and restrict medical practitioners. He believed in the greatest possible amount of personal freedom. As a medical pioneer he had to stand much obloquy but he was always courteous toward those who regarded him as a charlatan. His mind was extraordinarily active, sympathetic, and kindly.
Connections
King was twice married. His first wife was Charlotte M. Armington whom he married in 1833. She died in 1847 and in 1853 he married Phebe (Rodman) Platt.
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