Elisha Bartlett was a medical doctor, professor and poet who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 and as the first Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell, Massachusetts

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Medical professor

Beginning with his appointment as Professor of Pathological Anatomy and Materia Medica at the Berkshire Medical Institute in Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Pittsfield, Massachusetts

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 in 1832, Bartlett taught at a number of medical schools including Transylvania University

Transylvania University

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, the University of Maryland School of Medicine

University of Maryland, Baltimore

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, Vermont Medical College, Woodstock, Vermont, the University of Louisville

University of Louisville

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, where he was Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, the University of the City of New York, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

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 in New York City, where he was Chair of Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 in 1845.

Writings

• http://books.google.com/books?id=IWUSAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Elisha+Bartlett&source=bl&ots=sKMd1fzE5N&sig=2rSj8EpdCh1Gotx8yxVIqHL8h4I&hl=en&ei=9IQ8TOXPFsL68AbD6ICnBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q&f=falseThe history, diagnosis, and treatment of typhoid and of typhus fever, with an essay on the diagnosis of bilious remittent and of yellow fever (1842).]
• An sssay on the philosophy of medical science, (1844).
• The history, diagnosis, and treatment of the fevers of the United States, (1847).
• An inquiry into the degree of certainty in medicine: and into the nature and extent of its power over disease, (1848).
• The history, diagnosis, and treatment of edematous laryngitis, (1850).

External links

• Huth, E.J.: Elisha Bartlett (1804–1855), an American disciple of Jules Gavarret, (2006). In: The James Lind Library (www.jameslindlibrary.org). Accessed Tuesday July 13, 2010.
• Huntington, Elisha: An address on the life, character and writings of Elisha Bartlett, M.D., (1856). From The Digital Collections of the National Library of Medicine.