Abstract

TWO hundred years ago the Massachusetts Medical Society was founded by a distinguished group of physicians. It was at the close of the Revolution, and the need for medical organization was so great that the founders overlooked the recent passions and hardships to include Patriots and Tories. The Patriots included John Warren, Thomas Welch, Isaac Rand, and Cotton Tufts, and the Tories included James Lloyd and John Jeffries. The Tories were well educated in London medical schools, and the Patriots were apprentice-trained. Yet they worked together to start the society so sorely needed in the new republic.In 1881, the . . .

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