Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846. Letter book of Benjamin Waterhouse, 1790-1834 (inclusive). H MS b16.1, Countway Library of Medicine.

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Letter book containing fragments of correspondence and essays written by Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) between 1790 and the mid 1830s. The correspondence was mainly addressed to United States Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin concerning Waterhouse's position as superintendent of the United States Marine Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 1800s. There is also correspondence to the Massachusetts Medical Society, and to United States Secretary of State John Adams regarding the death penalty, and a transcribed essay on the court of judicature in Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin. Additionally, several contemporary news clippings on the Harvard professorship of Natural History are pasted in.

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New London Conneticut

Fort [??]

Commanded by Captn Mc Dowell Alexr Cunningham Surgeon - This fort is built on a point of land projecting into the river & about one mile from the town.

The land [deleted] on which [deleted] surrounding belonging to the U.S does not exceed 10 acres.

The rooms appropriated for an hospital & for a surgery & very much out of repair, and unfit for the purpose, and every thing within it is pretty much in the same state. The medicine is not an [??] in good order The Instruments, bandages, cotton & woolen are all jumbled together without appearance of system, [deleted] or much of one [deleted] The medicines are scattered about in two rooms The Surgeon is I conjective between 70 & 80 years of age, on which account I gave him several hours notice of my intended visit.

This gentleman does not reside in the fort, but in the town of New London. the barracks & beding are not over neat, yet everything appertaining to the soldiers, looks fit, I should believe to meet a soldiers eye. There is a good garden & good water & good provisions

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