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Joseph Carson was born on April 19, 1808 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Carson.
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Joseph Carson was born on April 19, 1808 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Carson.
Joseph was educated in private schools in Philadelphia and graduated from the collegiate department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1826. After working for a short time in a wholesale drug house he became a private pupil of Dr. Thomas T. Hewson while pursuing the medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his M. D. in 1830.
After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Carson was elected resident physician to the Philadelphia Almshouse. He then went to the East Indies as surgeon in the ship Georgiana and on his return to Philadelphia in 1832 began practise. Although he acquired a very large clientele, especially in obstetrics, he also carried on the study of botany throughout his life. In 1835 he became a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and for over forty years was most active in its affairs, making communications, serving on committees, and holding various offices. In 1836 he was chosen professor of materia medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and some years later he also taught in the Medical Institute of Philadelphia. From 1850 until 1876 he was professor of materia medica and pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1849 he was elected one of the physicians to the Lying-in-Department of the Pennsylvania Hospital, having as his colleague the distinguished Hugh L. Hodge. Both of these men served the Hospital until the department was finally closed in 1854 in consequence of recurrent outbreaks of puerperal fever. For some years Carson edited the American Journal of Pharmacy. He brought out two editions of Pereira's Materia Medica with notes. In 1847 he published Illustrations of Medical Botany, for which he had himself drawn and colored many of the plates. Carson was very active in the decennial conventions for the revision of the Pharmacopoeia. In 1869 he published his invaluable History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania.
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He was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, which he served as curator for seventeen years.
He was married twice: in 1841 to Mary Goddard who died without issue in the following year; and in 1848 to Sarah Hollingsworth by whom he had four children.