James Forbes
Dr. James Forbes came from Pennsylvania to practice
medicine in 1795. Marked dead in the list of 1848. There is no additional information available.
Source:
Annals of Medicine in Maryland
George Lynn
George Lynn, a Founder, was born in Frederick County, Md in 1756, the son
of Judge David Lynn of Frederick County and a native of Dublin. He married
Nancy Venable, but they had no children. He entered the Continental Army while
yet in his teens and practiced at Newtown, Frederick County, VA. He moved to
Cumberland, Md in 1847. “Neat in person and dress, his boots must shine like
satin” quiet and reserved, kindly and generous.
George Lynn became an eminent
physician and surgeon and was one of the charter members of the Medical and
Chirurgical Society of Maryland, founded in 1799. He died at Cumberland in 1852.
George Lynn had a nephew, also named
George Lynn, who was also a physician and a member of the Faculty.
Source:
Annals of Medicine in Maryland
Benjamin Murrow
Benjamin Murrow was a Founder in 1799. He also served as a Censor
in the first decade of Allegany County Md. (There was a Dr David Murrow who was
Surgeon of Colonel's Hall's Maryland Battalion in 1776)
On
23 September 1805, Dr. Benjamin Murrow made his first visit to Thomas
Mackelfish – trying to interpret his bill, it looks like he may have been given
an emetic and perhaps catharized (Benjamin Franklin invented the first flexible
catheter tube in 1752). The doctor visited again on the 6th, the 7th
(catharized again?) on the 10th and a final visit on 18 October 1805. His
total bill was £4-3-6; one assumes he travelled from Cumberland to make these
visits. (Dr. Murrow, from Allegany County was one of the first members of
the state medical society, established in 1798 by the legislature, along with
Drs. James Forbes & George Lynn, of Allegany County).
Sources: Annals
of Medicine in Maryland
Early Allegany
County Records from 1788-1812, Vol. II indicate that Benjamin Murrow owned more
than 230 acres of land over several properties in the county, although it is
not specified what the land was used for. He also owned a house in the town of
Cumberland.
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