An eulogium on Caspar Wistar, M.D. professor of anatomy ... delivered

by appointment, before the members of the Philadelphia Medical Society by Charles Caldwell

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First edition

Philadelphia: published by Thomas Dobson and Son, 1818. First edition, 8vo, pp. 28; removed from binding and whip-stitched along bottom edge; very good. This, together with similar eulogies by William Tilghman and David Hoosack, are the best contemporary accounts of Wistar's life American National Biography Online . Even the ill-natured and caustic Charles Caldwell writes of Wistar's genial and generous disposition. Though he criticizes him for

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