Introduction of Digitalis into North America
- 28 November 1946
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 235 (22) , 808-810
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194611282352216
Abstract
To the Editor: A New Hampshire physician first used Digitalis purpurea in North America. Hall Jackson (1739–1797) lived in Portsmouth and was well known in New England. His father, Clement Jackson, was a doctor, and from him Hall received his early medical education. For three years he attended lectures in London at the public hospitals and made many friends there. At that time his principal interest was in smallpox. He returned to the colonies, and in 1764 he was called to Boston because of a smallpox epidemic. Later he opened a smallpox hospital on Henzell's Island. Five days after the . . .Keywords
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