Address of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital to the Public (1814)
Boston: J. Belcher, Printer, 1814. Item #18530
A scarce War of 1812-Era Medical report signed on the title page by 1934 Nobel Prize Winner, George Richards Minot as well as 19th-century Influential Maine Reverend Ichabod Nichols.
Minot's Great Grandfather, James Jackson (1777-1867), was a co-founder of Massachusetts General.
This historic piece comes with an 1864, Civil War-Era issue of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, which features the printed notes of Minot ancestor, Francis Minot, a medical professor at Harvard College and a surgeon at Massachusetts General.
14pp. Lacking wraps. Bound in a card stock binding. faint dampstain to lower fore edge corner.
Ichabod Nichols has signed the piece under the word "Address" in the title, and placed in Portland, Maine. to the lower right of Nichols' signature Minot has written - "Bought Nov 1927 [?] #1.25 George R. Minot"
"In 1917, Minot came to Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital in Boston; he became chief of medical services in 1923, and was appointed physician-in-chief in 1934. In addition, Minot became professor of medicine at the Harvard University, and was appointed director of the Thorndik Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital. He also worked in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital as a staff member. He was a member of the Pernicious Anemia Committee at Harvard and served on the Anti-Anemia Preparation Advisory Board of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia.
"Minot was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1926. In 1930, Minot was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh with William P. Murphy. Minot shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple given for their work on the treatment of blood anemia. They all discovered an effective treatment for pernicious anemia, which was a terminal disease at the time, with liver concentrate high in vitamin B12, later identified as the critical compound in the treatment. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1935 and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1937." - wiki
"Ichabod Nichols was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 5, 1784. His parents were Ichabod and Lydia Ropes Nichols, both of whom belonged to old Salem families. The younger Ichabod was fitted for college at Salem, and graduated at Harvard with high honors in the class of 1802. He then began the study of theology under his pastor, Dr. Thomas Barnard, of Salem. He spent four years at Cambridge as tutor in mathematics, and on the 7th of July, 1809, was ordained associate pastor with the Rev. Dr. Deane of the First Church in Portland, Maine. In 1814 he became sole pastor by the death of his senior and continued so until 1855, when a colleague was settled. Dr. Nichols then removed to Cambridge, where he pursued his favorite studies until his death on the 2nd of January, 1859. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin in 1821 and from Harvard in 1851.
"Dr. Nichols’s ministry in Portland was in some respects unique. It attracted the strong minds and scholarly people of the city, and there can hardly have been a church in New England which had so high an average standard of ability as his. At the same time men of humble origin and occupation were drawn to him by the warmth of his sympathy and the fervor of his devotional spirit, and never has a minister been more beloved by people incapable of appreciating anything but his goodness and warmth of heart. His sermons were full of condensed thought and closely riveted chains of argument. They combined cogent logic and ardent piety, and were aimed both at the intellect and at the affections." - Harvard Square Library.
Price: $250.00