Dr James Hutchinson

James Hutchinson (1752-1793) was an American Quaker physician, who studied surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Upon his return to Philadelphia, Hutchinson worked as a surgeon, physician, and obstetrician at Pennsylvania Hospital and a professor of chemistry at the newly formed University of Pennsylvania. In the 1793 outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia, he fell ill while treating patients and died a week later.