Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Henry HARTSHORNE
HARTSHORNE, Henry, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 1823; son of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Bonsall) Hartshorne; and grandson of William Hartshorne. He was graduated at Haverford college, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842, and in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1845. He was professor of the institutes of medicine at the Philadelphia college of medicine, 1833-55; of the practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1859-66; of hygiene, 1866-67; and of organic science and philosophy in Haverford college, 1867-71; and of physiology and hygiene, 1871-76. He also held medical chairs in the Pennsylvania college of dental surgery, in the Woman's medical college of Pennsylvania, and in Girard college. He experimented on himself and others in 1848 to prove the effects and ascertain the safety of the internal use of chloroform. He received the hononary degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1884. He edited The Friends Review, and is the author of: Monograph on Glycerin; Essay on Cholera; Guide to the Medicine-chest; Conspectos of the Medical Sciences (1869); Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine (4th ed, 1874); and Summer Songs (1865). He died in Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 10, 1897.
American doctor, poet and member of the Society of Friends (Quaker). Professor of anatomy, physiology, health and natural sciences, elected to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1851, a founder of the American Public Health Association in 1872.
Son of Joseph Hartshorne (1779-1850), a Philadelphia physician, and Anna (Bonsal) Harshorne.
Married Mary E. Brown on Jan. 8, 1849 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
During the Civil War, he was a surgeon in the Philadelphia hospitals. During the battle of Gettysburg, he cared for the wounded on the battlefield. In 1893, he went to Japan and returned again in 1895 to work in the Quaker missions.
Father of Anna Cope Hartshorne and Virginia Hartshorne [adopted].
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