Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D.
Affiliations: | 1782-1814 | Harvard School of Medicine |
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"Benjamin Waterhouse"Bio:
(March 4, 1754, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – October 2, 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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Co-founder of the Harvard Medical School in 1783, he resigned from Harvard in 1814. Also held an appointment at what will become Brown University. Between 1775 and 1778, he studied medicine with Dr. John Halliburton and judge Robert Lightfoot in Newport. In 1780, he studied medicine and science at Edinburgh for nine months and in London with his relative John Fothergill, whom he credits as his principal mentor. In 1780, he obtained the M.D. degree in Leyden with the Dissertatio medica "De sympathia partium corporis humani, ejusque, in explicandis et curandis morbis necessaria consideratione".
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Sign in to add mentor| John Fothergill | research assistant | 1775-1778 | The University of Edinburgh Medical School | |
| (Although Fothergill was not on the faculty, he was licensed by the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh in 1744. Waterhouse acknowledges Fothergill's mentorship in his doctoral dissertation, received from Leiden University in 1780. His doctoral adviso) | ||||
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Sign in to add trainee| Parker L.D. Cleaveland | research assistant | 1795-1799 | Harvard (Geotree) |
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