American physician and medical writer, born in New York City on the 17th of November 1789; apprenticed to a printer; graduated at Columbia College in 1809; graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1811; was associated with Dr. Hosack in editing the American Medical and Philosophical Register, a quarterly which had an existence of four years. He was professor of materia medica in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; then in Columbia College; and continued professor when these two institutions were united. In 1816 he went to Europe. On his return he resumed his professorial duties at Columbia and then at Rutgers College, an institution formed by the professors of Columbia, who had resigned in a body. Rutgers College was continued until 1830, when it was closed by the legislature. His services were much sought after in all medical, literary and typographical societies. His published works include a wide range of subjects. Among them are Notice of Thomas Eddy; The Anatomy of Drunkenness; and Old New York; or, Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years (1857; enlarged with a memoir, 1855). He died in New York City on the 8th of February 1861.
