The Medical Repository--the first U.S. medical journal (1797-1824)

Abstract

"13 In 1791 Benjamin Waterhouse delivered a discourse entitled "The Rise, Progress, and Present State of Medicine" to the Middlesex Medical Association of Boston, stating that "A country so completely independent in other respects as the United States, however ready to receive information in the higher grades of science . . . should blush to be indebted to foreign seminaries for the first principles of professional instruction.