Abstract

At the second meeting (April 17, 1782) of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Drs. John Warren, National W. Appleton, and Cotton Tufts were made a committee invent a Device and Motto for the Seal of the Society. According to the gospel as compiled by Walter L. Burrage, M.D. [A History of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1781–1922, privately printed in 1923]: The Committee reported July 18 of the same year [1782] laying several devices before the society, particularly a Figure of Aesculapius in his proper Habit pointing to a Wounded Hart nipping the Herb proper for his Cure with this Motto . . .

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