Interior Ballistics: A Text Book for the Use of Cadets at the U. S. Naval Academy (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Interior Ballistics: A Text Book for the Use of Cadets at the U. S. Naval Academy
In 1884, Sarrau's Researches on the Effects of Powder were trans lated and published in the Proceedings of the U. S. Naval Institute, Vol. X, No. 28, by the authors of this volume, and in that form were used in the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery at the Naval Academy for the instruction of Cadets. The edition having been exhausted, it has been thought proper to reproduce those portions of Sarrau's researches which are necessary for a practical understanding of the work of gunpowder in guns. Numerous examples have been introduced for work in the Section Room, and some extracts from Sarrau's Chargement des Bouches a Feu have been added.
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Exterior Ballistics: Prepared And Arranged For The Use Of Cadets At The U.s. Naval Academy
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A history of the first quarter of the second century of the Pennsylvania hospital
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Text-Book Or Ordnance and Gunnery: Naval B.L.R. Guns : Prepared and Arranged for the Use of Naval Cadets
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On the Internal Use of Water for the Sick, and On Thirst: A Clinical Lecture at the Pennsylvania Hospital, October 25, 1879
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John Forsyth Meigs was an American physician, pediatrician, and author, brother of Montgomery C. Meigs.
Background
John Forsyth Meigs was the son of Charles Delucena Meigs and Mary (Montgomery) Meigs, and the third of ten children. He was born on October 3, 1818 in Philadelphia, soon after his father, aged twenty-six, had arrived in that city to start upon the practice of medicine.
Education
Being by nature quiet and sober-minded, and having before him the example of his cultured and industrious father, from early childhood Meigs desired to become a physician and never departed from this purpose, which was early recognized and accepted in the family. He first attended a "dame's school" in Cherry Street, and later went to the Classical Institute of Mr. Samuel Crawford, a notoriously harsh and cruel man who is said to have used his rattan unmercifully. Since his father was impatient to have him begin his medical studies, he was taken from school before he was sixteen and began attending lectures "upon two of the elementary branches at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the same time studying music and having a tutor who gave him some further instruction". He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1838.
Career
When less than twenty years of age, Meigs almost immediately became a resident physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital, a position to which he had been appointed before graduation. With the completion of his service, in 1840, he sailed for Europe to spend some six or seven months in Paris, where he enjoyed the lectures and clinics of Velpeau and Louis. In 1841 he began to practice medicine in his father's house on Chestnut Street, in his native city, with the latter's great reputation and large clientele to aid him. Success came at once. Following his father's example, he began, in 1843, to teach obstetrics and later the practice of medicine and diseases of children, in the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction an enterprise whose function was to provide supplementary courses for medical students in the spring and autumn. He continued to teach here until 1854, when his practice absorbed too much of his time. At the age of thirty, in 1848, he completed his book, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children, published as a volume of the Medical Practitioner's and Student's Library. It was an immediate success and became a standard work upon the subject in all English-speaking countries. Other editions were soon called for, but as he reaped justified rewards for his labors in an ever-increasing practice, he found himself too busy to prepare the fourth edition. He, therefore sought a worthy young associate to collaborate with him, finally selecting Dr. WilliamPepper, to whom he gave one-half the rights of ownership. Under the names of Meigs and Pepper appeared the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions (1870 - 86). In 1859 Meigs was elected one of the physicians to the Pennsylvania Hospital, which position he held until 1881, when he resigned. He was also at various times a visiting physician to the Children's Hospital, a consulting physician to the Women's Hospital and to the Blind Asylum, a fellow of the College of Physicians, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Meigs is described as gentlemanly, modest, and correct in all things; a keen observer, an accurate medical diagnostician, and a physician loved and revered by patients and friends. His life was so simple as to have been almost austere. He lived for his family and his work, dying in December 1882 after a short illness from pneumonia, at the age of sixty-four years. One of his sons, Arthur Vincent Meigs, carrying on the family tradition of medical distinction, was his father's successor as physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital; another, William Montgomery Meigs, was noted for his scholarly biographies and studies in constitutional law.
Connections
On October 17, 1844, John married Ann Wilcocks Ingersoll, daughter of Charles Jared Ingersoll, by whom he had eight children, six of whom survived. The union was terminated by his wife's death after about twelve years, and he never remarried.