Stephen Theodore Johnson
Stephen Theodore Johnson was a son of Henry Johnson, a
Gentleman who died in 1780. Johnson received his MB from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1789. He signed his name MB to a diploma in 1805.
He died at Easton, Talbot County, on July 16 1813.
Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)
In the year 1798, a number of the leading physicians of the State
united in a petition to the General Assembly for an act of incorporation, and
in January of the following year their petition was granted by the passage of a
bill constituting certain persons therein mentioned a body corporate, under the
title of "The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of
Maryland." Among the provisions of this bill was the granting to this
society the power to issue licenses to practice medicine within the State, to
those persons who should prove their competency before a "Board of
Examiners" to be selected, seven from the Western and five from the
Eastern Shore. Of the original petitioners and corporators Dr. Ennalls Martin
was one; and at the first meeting of the Faculty, June 11th, 1799, at
Annapolis, he was elected one of the Board of Examiners for this Shore, the
other members of that section of the board being Doctors James Anderson, Jr.,
of Kent, James Davidson of Queen Anne's, Perry E. Noel and Stephen Theodore
Johnson, of Talbot.
At a general meeting of this Faculty at Baltimore in July, 1802,
committees for each city and county in the State, entitled Medical Censors,
were appointed, the principal duty of which was to see that "the Medical
and Chirurgical law be not infringed by unlicensed practitioners, and that the
penalties thereof be inflicted upon trespassers." Dr. Ennalls Martin and
Dr. Stephen Theodore Johnson were selected as the Censors for Talbot.
Source: The Worthies of
Talbot County
Ennalls Martin Talbot
Ennalls Martin was born at Hampden, Talbot County, Md on
August 23, 1758. He was educated at Newark, (Delaware) Academy and was a pupil
of Dr. Shippen in Philadelphia. He was a Surgeon's Mate to the Maryland Line in
the Revolution from June 1, 1777 to February 16, 1780. He received his MB from
University of Pennsylvania in 1782. He began practice at Easton in 1782. Dr.
Martin was an Orator Medical and Chirurgical Faculty in 1807. He received an
Honorary MD from the University of Maryland in 1818. He was President of the Medical
and Chirurgical Faculty from 1815 to 1820, declining reelection in 1820. He resided
in Baltimore for some years, about 1815 to 1820. He was the author of “An Essay
on Epidemics of the Winters of 1813 and 1814 in Talbot and Queen Anne's
Counties Maryland.” He was a devoted and scientific agriculturist. From his
brusque manners he was called the “Abernethy of Talboy.” Of great bodily
strength and tenacious of his opinions, he delighted in surgery and was a
zealous follower of Dr. Rush. Died at Easton December 16, 1834 leaving a large
family.
Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)
While Ennalls Martin was
well-educated in the medical field having learned his profession after several
years in the Revolutionary Army, apparently he was not a nice person. The
reputation he had acquired in Talbot County, which was really bad, and extended
into distant portions of the state, persuaded him, in the year 1818, to
surrender his practice and remove to Baltimore... But like most physicians who
have attempted similar adventures, he was disappointed in his expectations, and
after a short residence in Baltimore, he returned to Easton, and resumed his
former life…
In a nearly 7,000-word
biography, published in 1915, there are numerous accounts of how “really bad”
Dr. Martin was. However, it does not mention whether he had slaves, nor does
any of the many other accounts of his life that I searched. But, as you
continue the biography, it mentions that Dr. Martin was interested in
agriculture, and studied the laws of nature.
A
large number of well-educated gentlemen were then engaged in a pursuit that is
now too commonly abandoned to those of the least mental culture. The leisure
afforded by the possession of slaves who performed the drudgery of labor under
the supervision of overseers gave the masters the opportunity for the study of
farm methods, and for coordinating the results of his own and his neighbors'
observation and experience. The result was a vast amount of correct
agricultural knowledge, which came near to science, if it were not science, and
a system of farming which has not been excelled by those who are most
accustomed to undervalue it, and which has been the admiration of those capable
of estimating it without prejudice.
Source: The Worthies
of Talbot County
Perry Eccleston Noel Talbot
Perry Eccleston Noel was born in Maryland in 1768. He was classically
educated and studied under an eminent physician in Maryland. He received his MD
from the University of Edinburgh in 1794, with his thesis, “De Angina Tracheali.” He married to Sarah
Nicholson in 1795. He was a physician to the Queen Anne's County Almshouse in
1804. He was also a member of the Centerville Town Council in 1809. Dr. Noel died
at Centerville, Queen Anne's County on October 14, 1813, leaving a wife and
children. Mr J.B. Noel Wyatt, a grandson and an architect of Baltimore, has a
pencil profile of Dr. Noel indicating a robust handsome middle-aged man with
abundant light hair, blue eyes, large nostrils, without wig, clean-shaven face,
well- formed regular features, rather thick lips, old fashioned coat with high
collar, and white neck scarf; a frank sociable, amiable, countenance.
Source:
Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)
Tristram Thomas Talbot
Tristram Thomas was born at Roodly in
Bolingbroke Neck, Talbot County, Maryland on Christmas Day, 1769. He was
educated at Wilmington, Delaware, a student of Dr. Nicholas Way of Wilmington.
He then studied at the College of Medicine of Philadelphia and received his MD
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1792.
Dr. Thomas began practice at Trappe, in
Talbot County, Maryland and then moved to Easton where he practiced for fifty
years. He was on the Board of Health of Talbot County beginning in 1793. He was
an attending Physician of the County Almshouse. Additionally, he was President
of the Sixth District Medical Society in 1815. Dr. Thomas was one of the
original founders of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1799.
He was the father of Governor Philip F.
Thomas of Maryland. He carried a cane
made of wood from the Mount of Olives. He died in Easton on August 5, 1847.
Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)
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