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Thomas H. Brown, PhD

JAMA. 1975;234(2):178-180.

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BECAUSE Noah Webster's monumental philological achievement in compiling the great American Dictionary has long overshadowed his many other significant contributions to the cultural and educational development of the new nation, little attention has been given to his other accomplishments. However, as one commentator has observed, "he left some mark of his influence" on every field of activity he entered into, including medicine.^1(p755)

Born in West Hartford, Conn, in 1758, Webster graduated from Yale with the famous class of 1778. Yale's most distinguished class up to the Civil War included, besides Webster, Joel Barlow, poet and minister to France, and Josiah Meigs, publisher and President of the University of Georgia.^2-4 On his graduation at the age of 20, penniless, unemployed, and with no prospects for the future, Webster returned to his father's home in West Hartford, hoping to study law. But his father, having already mortgaged the family farm . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi, University.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to the Department of English, 11 Bondurant Hall, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677 (Dr. Brown).

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