“Where the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity -Hippocrates.” This quote is extremely relevant to “the pioneer of medical education” John Morgan. John Morgan was a doctor who founded the first medical school in America. Morgan was born on June 10, 1735 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later died on October 15, 1789 in Philadelphia. Morgan was born to Evan Morgan, an immigrant from Wales, and Joanna Biles. After a classical education at West Nottingham Academy in Maryland, he graduated from the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) in 1757. After serving as a surgeon general of the Continental Armies during the Seven Years War, he then traveled to the United Kingdom to begin to study medicine at
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These vaccinations controlled pneumonia. Morgan prepared his vaccination with a fellow unnamed physician. When most people hear the word vaccination, they think of injections and shots. However, Morgan made a pill that was also considered a vaccination. Morgan’s vaccination was made with a harmless polysaccharide (sugar) coating on it until these Morgan and his fellow colleagues begun to realize that in cases of young babies and toddlers, their vaccination was harming them. This is because toddlers and babies do not have the fully developed immune systems that can process this type of sugar coating. After realizing their mistake, Morgan and his fellow doctors ceased to make their vaccination pill with the polysaccharide coating. Morgan was able to successfully treat 23 cases of pneumonia with his vaccination. This vaccination cost Morgan and his fellow physician 20 cents to make. John Morgan is deserving of his title “the father of medical education” because he made a working vaccination using the trial and error method and was able to help many …show more content…
This medical school resided at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. However, even though Morgan founded this school, many other doctors, surgeons and physicians helped him out. Morgan worked with many medical professionals including William Shippen Jr., Thomas Bond, Adam Kuhn, Benjamin Rush, Caspar Wistar, Benjamin Smith Barton, James Hutchinson, Samuel Powel Griffitts, James Woodhouse and John Carson. These doctors would service Morgan and help cure his patients. As well as being a hospital, it was also a school. However many of these attending students came from extremely wealthy families with ties to the medical field. To receive a degree from the university, you only had to be sixteen years old. Although, most students were up to twenty five years in age when they were granted their diplomas. This medical school was unlike all of today’s current medical schools. In today’s medical education facilities, dormitories are provided with fee to majority of students. In Morgan’s school, housing facilities were not even thought about at first. This wasn’t really a concerning issue because the students all hailed from the county and they could continue to live at home with their families. Once the medical school grew more and more popular, students started to come from all over the colony and even other nearby colonies. Eventually, dormitories seemed to become extremely necessary because students who lived far
These vaccinations controlled pneumonia. Morgan prepared his vaccination with a fellow unnamed physician. When most people hear the word vaccination, they think of injections and shots. However, Morgan made a pill that was also considered a vaccination. Morgan’s vaccination was made with a harmless polysaccharide (sugar) coating on it until these Morgan and his fellow colleagues begun to realize that in cases of young babies and toddlers, their vaccination was harming them. This is because toddlers and babies do not have the fully developed immune systems that can process this type of sugar coating. After realizing their mistake, Morgan and his fellow doctors ceased to make their vaccination pill with the polysaccharide coating. Morgan was able to successfully treat 23 cases of pneumonia with his vaccination. This vaccination cost Morgan and his fellow physician 20 cents to make. John Morgan is deserving of his title “the father of medical education” because he made a working vaccination using the trial and error method and was able to help many …show more content…
This medical school resided at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. However, even though Morgan founded this school, many other doctors, surgeons and physicians helped him out. Morgan worked with many medical professionals including William Shippen Jr., Thomas Bond, Adam Kuhn, Benjamin Rush, Caspar Wistar, Benjamin Smith Barton, James Hutchinson, Samuel Powel Griffitts, James Woodhouse and John Carson. These doctors would service Morgan and help cure his patients. As well as being a hospital, it was also a school. However many of these attending students came from extremely wealthy families with ties to the medical field. To receive a degree from the university, you only had to be sixteen years old. Although, most students were up to twenty five years in age when they were granted their diplomas. This medical school was unlike all of today’s current medical schools. In today’s medical education facilities, dormitories are provided with fee to majority of students. In Morgan’s school, housing facilities were not even thought about at first. This wasn’t really a concerning issue because the students all hailed from the county and they could continue to live at home with their families. Once the medical school grew more and more popular, students started to come from all over the colony and even other nearby colonies. Eventually, dormitories seemed to become extremely necessary because students who lived far