Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Adam KUHN
Dr. Adam Kuhn, born at Germantown, November 17, 1741, was reared at Lancaster. He studied medicine under his father until 1761, when he sailed for Europe, to take a course at the famous old University of Upsala, Sweden, where he arrived in January, 1762. He studied medicine and botany, under Linnaeus, and other professors, until July or August, 1764, when he proceeded to Edinburgh, taking his degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, June 12, 1767. He visited France, Holland and Germany, and in January, 1768, returned to Pennsylvania, and took up the practice of medicine in Philadelphia. He was in correspondence with Linnaeus, with whom he appears to have been a favorite pupil, during the remainder of the life of that famous naturalist and botanist, many of whose letters are still in possession of the family.
Dr. Kuhn soon rose to a position of distinction among the medical fraternity, and acquired a large and lucrative practice. He was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Botany in the College of Philadelphia, January, 1768, and in May, 1775, elected one of the physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital, a position he continued to fill for a period of twenty-three years. He was appointed physician at the Philadelphia Dispensary, at its institution in 1786, was one of the active members of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and succeeding Dr. William Shippen as its president at the latter's death in July, 1808, held the position until he died. He married on the Island of St. Croix, May 14, 1781, Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe, born August 20, 1755, died February 25, 1791, widow of Francis Markoe, and daughter of Isaac and Margaret Carrell (Nanton) Hartman, of that island. Returning to Philadelphia, Dr. Kuhn continued in his profession until 1815, when he retired from active practice, and died July 5, 1817. Dr. Kuhn was appointed Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, November, 1789. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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