John Kearsley Mitchell
Physician
1798 – 1858
Who was John Kearsley Mitchell?
John Kearsley Mitchell was an American physician and writer, born in Shepherdstown, Virginia. He graduated from the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania in 1819. Before he went to Philadelphia to practice his profession, he made three voyages to the Far East as ship's surgeon. In 1826 he became professor of medicine and physiology at the Philadelphia Medical Institute and in 1833 professor of chemistry at the Franklin Institute. From 1841 to 1858 he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Jefferson Medical College.
He was also the father of American physician and writer Silas Weir Mitchell.
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- Born
- May 12, 1798
Shepherdstown - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Virginia
- Philadelphia
- Died
- 1858
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on July 23, 2013
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