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Robert Bridges was born on March 5, 1806 in Philadelphia and was the son of Culpepper Bridges and his wife Sarah Clifton.
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Robert Bridges
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Robert was educated in that city until he went to Dickinson College. from which he graduated in 1824. He then became a pupil of Thomas T. Hewson in his private medical classes while studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1828. Although Bridges did not practise medicine many years he became a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1842.
Career
Robert Bridges served as its librarian from 1867 to 1879, and catalogued the Urinary Calculi in its Mutter Museum. He was one of the vaccine physicians of Philadelphia for some years, and during the cholera epidemic of 1832 he was appointed a district physician.
In 1835 he became a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, which he subsequently served at various times as librarian, corresponding secretary, vice-president, and finally president in 1864.
In 1835 with Dr. Paul B. Goddard he presented to the Academy an Index of the genera in its Herbarium, and in 1843 he presented a new Index along with one of Menke's Herbarium, which had come into the Academy's possession. While yet a student with Hewson, Bridges had assisted Franklin Bache in teaching chemistry to Hewson's pupils and had shown much ability.
In 1831 he assisted Bache in his chemical teaching in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, of which institution he became a trustee in 1839. In 1842 he was appointed professor of general and pharmaceutical chemistry in the College, becoming emeritus professor in 1879.
From 1839 to 1846 he was assistant editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy. He was a member of the Committee for the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia in 1840 and again in 1870. From 1846 to 1848 he was professor of chemistry in Franklin Medical College.
For a few years before his death he suffered from chronic cystitis. He died on February 20, 1882, in the house in Philadelphia in which for twenty-eight years he had lived with his brother and his family.
Achievements
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Robert Bridges was elected as a member of the Committee for the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia twice in 1840 and again in 1870. He was also appointed professor of chemistry in Franklin Medical College and served in this capacity from 1846 to 1848 . Besides many contributions to transactions and periodicals that Robert Bridges made, he also edited the American edition of George Fownes's Elementary Chemistry and Thomas Graham's Elements of Chemistry. He assisted George B. Wood in the preparation of several editions of the United States Dispensary, as well as in his teaching of materia medica at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Elements of Inorganic Chemistry
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Fownes' Manual of Chemistry
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Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical
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Elements of Chemistry, Including the Applications of the Science in the Arts
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Elements of Inorganic Chemistry
Views
The great interests of Bridges' life were botany and chemistry.
Membership
He was a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (1836). In 1844 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Connections
He was never married.
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American