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Thomas Duche Mitchell was born in Philadelphia, of a family of proved "respectability and morality, " established there for four generations.
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Elements of Chemical Philosophy, on the Basis of Reid: Comprising the Rudiments of That Science and the Requisite Experimental Illustrations, With Plates and Diagrams (Classic Reprint)
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The Good Physician: Being an Introductory to the Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, in the Medical Department of Transylvania ... for the Session of 1842-3 (Classic Reprint)
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Hints on the Connexion of Labour with Study, as a Preventive of Diseases Peculiar to Students; And Also as the Best Expedient for Placing a Good ... Substance of an Introductory Lecture, on Med
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Materia Medica and Therapeutics: With Ample Illustrations of Practice in All the Departments of Medical Science, and Very Copious Notes of Toxicology, ... Practitioners, and Teachers (Classic Reprint)
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Thomas Duché Mitchell
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Mitchell received his English and classical education at Carson Academy and the Friends' Academy. After spending almost a year in the drugstore and chemical laboratory of Dr. Adam Seybert, where he acquired his taste for chemistry, he took up the study of medicine under the preceptorship of a Dr. Parrish, with whom he continued for three years. In the meantime, he attended lectures in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his degree there in 1812.
Career
Mitchell began the publication of papers on medical subjects while yet an undergraduate and the year of his graduation he was appointed a professor of animal and vegetable physiology in St. John's College, Philadelphia. In 1813, he was appointed a physician to the Philadelphia Lazaretto, which position he held for three years. From 1822 to 1831, he practiced in Frankford, Pennsylvania. In 1819, he published a small volume entitled, Medical Chemistry; or a Compendious View of the Various Substances Employed in the Practice of Medicine. The following year, he was offered the professorship of chemistry in Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, but declined it.
In 1831, he accepted the chair of chemistry at Miami University, but before the end of the year went to a similar position in the Medical College of Ohio. In 1832, he published his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, a volume of about 600 octavo pages, and his Hints on the Connexion of Labor with Study, as a Preventive of Diseases Peculiar to Students, a duodecimo. In 1832-33, he was co-editor of the Western Medical Gazette. He went to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1837 as professor of chemistry at the Medical Institute, but a month later, accepted a similar position in Transylvania University, Lexington. In 1839, he was transferred to the chair of the materia medica and therapeutics, which he held until 1849, teaching obstetrics, also, in the session of 1845-46. In 1849, he became a professor of theory and practice of medicine, obstetrics, and medical jurisprudence, at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. In 1850, he published his Materia Medica and Therapeutics, an octavo of 750 pages, and also edited John Eberle's A Treatise on the Diseases and Physical Education of Children, to which he added notes and about 200 pages of new material. In 1857, he became a professor of materia medica in Jefferson Medical College. At the time of his death, he left unpublished a work of 600 pages on the "Fevers of the United States. " He was the biographer of John Eberle in Samuel D. Gross's Lives of Eminent American Physicians (1861), and a frequent contributor to medical periodicals.
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The Good Physician: Being an Introductory to the Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, in the Medical Department of Transylvania ... for the Session of 1842-3 (Classic Reprint)
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The Character of Rush: An Introductory to the Course on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, in the Philadelphia College of Medicine (Classic Reprint)
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Hints on the Connexion of Labour with Study, as a Preventive of Diseases Peculiar to Students; And Also as the Best Expedient for Placing a Good ... Substance of an Introductory Lecture, on Med
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Materia Medica and Therapeutics: With Ample Illustrations of Practice in All the Departments of Medical Science, and Very Copious Notes of Toxicology, ... Practitioners, and Teachers (Classic Reprint)
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Medical Chemistry, or a Compendious View of the Various Substances Employed in the Practice of Medicine, That Depend on Chemical Principles for Their ... Is Appended, a Discourse on the Medical Cha
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Elements of Chemical Philosophy, on the Basis of Reid: Comprising the Rudiments of That Science and the Requisite Experimental Illustrations, With Plates and Diagrams (Classic Reprint)
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The Good Physician: Being an Introductory to the Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, in the Medical Department of Transylvania ... for the Session of 1842-3 (Classic Reprint)
Views
Mitchell was an early advocate of total abstinence from alcohol, and in 1826, he attempted to form a total-abstinence temperance society at Frankford but was unsuccessful. Apparently, too few of his contemporaries shared his views.
Personality
As a writer and author, Mitchell was indefatigable; as a lecturer, clear and impressive. A classical and scientific scholar, a rigidly upright and conscientious gentleman.
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There is no information about his personal life.
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