A funeral address, delivered on the twenty-sixth of May 1818, at the interment of Doctor James Tillary, late president of the St. Andrew's Society of the city of New York / by David Hosack, M.D. ... ; delivered at the request of the St. Andrew's Society.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
1818
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A funeral address, delivered on the twenty-sixth of May 1818, at the interment of Doctor James Tillary, late president of the St. Andrew's Society of the city of New York / by David Hosack, M.D. ... ; delivered at the request of the St. Andrew's Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    9/22
    various lectures, which qualified him for the sta- tion he soon afterwards obtained, that of a sur- geon in the army of Great Britain. In that capa- city, at an early period of the revolutionary war, he first came to this country, which he made the permanent place of his residence. Shortly after his arrival in this city, he assumed the character of a practitioner of medicine and surgery. To the former branch, however, he prin- cipally confined his attention, and for more than forty years exercised its responsible and important duties—with what success the inhabitants of this city can abundantly testify ; you all can testify, for you have had daily evidence of his profes- sional merit and skill. Ir is not my intention to detain you by a recital of the various qualifications which adorned his professional character—those will, doubtless, be delineated by another society, of which he was a conspicuous member, and where he also for many years occupied the most el- evated station in their power to bestow.* But I * Dr. Ti!!ary was for several years the President of the Medical Socie- ty of the county of New-York.