Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, founder of the American Medical Association, was born 9 Jan 1817 in Greene, Chenango County, New York. He was the youngest of the seven children of Dow & Eleanor (Smith) Davis. He received his education in Common School District, one year at Cazenovia Seminary, time with Dr. Daniel Clark of Smithville Flats and courses at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Western New York. In 1837 at age twenty he received his degree of M.D. After working with Dr. Daniel Chatfield for several months, he opened his own office in Binghamton, Broome County, New York.
1838 he married Anna Maria Parker, daughter of Judge John Parker. Also in 1838 he was elected an officer in the Broome County Medical Society and was very active in its affairs until he moved to New York City in 1847. He had become renowned as public speaker and debater by 1844. He introduced the resolution that called a medical meeting in New York City in 1846, to discuss medical education, and one hundred delegates from sixteen states met. Out of this meeting grew the American Medical Association, their first meeting as such was in 1847 in Philadelphia.
In 1849 Dr. Nathan Smith Davis moved to Chicago, he was a Professor of medicine at several Medical Colleges, founder of a hospital, Dean of Northwestern University Medical School 1863-1898, one of the founders of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Illinois State Microscopical Society, Union College of Law, and the Washington Home for Inebriates. He was a medical politician as well as a physician.
Some of the books he authored were "Textbook on Agriculture", History of Medical Education and Institutions in the United States", and "History of Medicine, With the Code of Ethics".
Davis campaigned against consumption of alcohol throughout his career, which he described as "a positive protoplasmic poison, directly impairing every natural structure and function of the living body".
A founded the American Medical Temperance Society in 1891. He continued to practice
Medicine until this death at age 87.
1838 he married Anna Maria Parker, daughter of Judge John Parker. Also in 1838 he was elected an officer in the Broome County Medical Society and was very active in its affairs until he moved to New York City in 1847. He had become renowned as public speaker and debater by 1844. He introduced the resolution that called a medical meeting in New York City in 1846, to discuss medical education, and one hundred delegates from sixteen states met. Out of this meeting grew the American Medical Association, their first meeting as such was in 1847 in Philadelphia.
In 1849 Dr. Nathan Smith Davis moved to Chicago, he was a Professor of medicine at several Medical Colleges, founder of a hospital, Dean of Northwestern University Medical School 1863-1898, one of the founders of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Illinois State Microscopical Society, Union College of Law, and the Washington Home for Inebriates. He was a medical politician as well as a physician.
Some of the books he authored were "Textbook on Agriculture", History of Medical Education and Institutions in the United States", and "History of Medicine, With the Code of Ethics".
Davis campaigned against consumption of alcohol throughout his career, which he described as "a positive protoplasmic poison, directly impairing every natural structure and function of the living body".
A founded the American Medical Temperance Society in 1891. He continued to practice
Medicine until this death at age 87.
Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, founder of the American Medical Association, was born 9 Jan 1817 in Greene, Chenango County, New York. He was the youngest of the seven children of Dow & Eleanor (Smith) Davis. He received his education in Common School District, one year at Cazenovia Seminary, time with Dr. Daniel Clark of Smithville Flats and courses at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Western New York. In 1837 at age twenty he received his degree of M.D. After working with Dr. Daniel Chatfield for several months, he opened his own office in Binghamton, Broome County, New York.
1838 he married Anna Maria Parker, daughter of Judge John Parker. Also in 1838 he was elected an officer in the Broome County Medical Society and was very active in its affairs until he moved to New York City in 1847. He had become renowned as public speaker and debater by 1844. He introduced the resolution that called a medical meeting in New York City in 1846, to discuss medical education, and one hundred delegates from sixteen states met. Out of this meeting grew the American Medical Association, their first meeting as such was in 1847 in Philadelphia.
In 1849 Dr. Nathan Smith Davis moved to Chicago, he was a Professor of medicine at several Medical Colleges, founder of a hospital, Dean of Northwestern University Medical School 1863-1898, one of the founders of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Illinois State Microscopical Society, Union College of Law, and the Washington Home for Inebriates. He was a medical politician as well as a physician.
Some of the books he authored were "Textbook on Agriculture", History of Medical Education and Institutions in the United States", and "History of Medicine, With the Code of Ethics".
Davis campaigned against consumption of alcohol throughout his career, which he described as "a positive protoplasmic poison, directly impairing every natural structure and function of the living body".
A founded the American Medical Temperance Society in 1891. He continued to practice
Medicine until this death at age 87.
1838 he married Anna Maria Parker, daughter of Judge John Parker. Also in 1838 he was elected an officer in the Broome County Medical Society and was very active in its affairs until he moved to New York City in 1847. He had become renowned as public speaker and debater by 1844. He introduced the resolution that called a medical meeting in New York City in 1846, to discuss medical education, and one hundred delegates from sixteen states met. Out of this meeting grew the American Medical Association, their first meeting as such was in 1847 in Philadelphia.
In 1849 Dr. Nathan Smith Davis moved to Chicago, he was a Professor of medicine at several Medical Colleges, founder of a hospital, Dean of Northwestern University Medical School 1863-1898, one of the founders of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Illinois State Microscopical Society, Union College of Law, and the Washington Home for Inebriates. He was a medical politician as well as a physician.
Some of the books he authored were "Textbook on Agriculture", History of Medical Education and Institutions in the United States", and "History of Medicine, With the Code of Ethics".
Davis campaigned against consumption of alcohol throughout his career, which he described as "a positive protoplasmic poison, directly impairing every natural structure and function of the living body".
A founded the American Medical Temperance Society in 1891. He continued to practice
Medicine until this death at age 87.
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