THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
1754 – 1844
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1823 CE
#6584.9
A military journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775-1783…
The first American medical historian, Thacher gave the best contemporary account of medicine during the Revolutionary War, as well as an important history of the war in general. See No. 6710.
1828 CE
#6710
American medical biography. 2 vols.
Thacher was the first American medical historian. The above biography is a valuable source of information on the early medical history of the United States. Reprinted, New York, Da Capo Press, 1967.