John Kearsley Mitchell
John Kearsley Mitchell | |
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| Born | May 12, 1798 |
| Died | April 4, 1858 (aged 59) |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Known for | Medical and chemistry research |
| Children | Silas Weir Mitchell |
John Kearsley Mitchell (May 12, 1798 – April 4, 1858) was an American medical doctor and writer, born in Shepherdstown, Virginia (present-day West Virginia). Orphaned at the age of eight, and sent to his late father's family in Scotland at the age of thirteen, Kearsley was educated at Ayr Academy and the University of Edinburgh.
He returned to the United States in 1814, and began studying medicine under Samuel Powel Griffitts (apprenticeship was a common method of medical education in this period) before enrolling at an institution for his medical education.[1] He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1819.[2] Before he went to Philadelphia to practice his profession, he made three voyages to East Asia 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. In 1827, Mitchell was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3] From 1841 to 1858, he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Jefferson Medical College. Mitchell was a freemason and served as grand master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in 1858.[4]
He was also the father of American physician and writer Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914).
Works
[edit]- St. Helena (1821), a poem
- On the Penetratieness of Fluids (AJMS, Nov. 1830) [5]
- On the Wisdom, Goodness and Power of God as Illustrated in the Properties of Water (1834)
- Indecision, a Tale of the Far West, and Other Poems (1839)
- On the Cryptogamous Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers (1849)
- Five Essays on Various Chemical and Medical Subjects (1858), published posthumously by his son S. Weir Mitchell.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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References
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- ↑ Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “John K. Mitchell,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, Volume 2: pages 381-382
- ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ↑ "Past Grand Masters". Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. 11 December 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ↑ Mitchell, J. K. (1995). On the penetrativeness of fluids. Journal of Membrane Science, 100(1), 11–16. doi:10.1016/0376-7388(94)00227-P
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- American male non-fiction writers
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- American medical academics
- Educators from Shepherdstown, West Virginia
- Educators from Virginia
- Grand masters of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Medical doctors from Philadelphia
- Medical doctors from Virginia
- Poets from Pennsylvania
- Poets from Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson University faculty
- Writers from Shepherdstown, West Virginia
- 19th-century American surgeons
- 19th-century American science writers