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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00262 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1821 |
| Title | Thomas Jefferson to Dr. David Hosack on news of a revolution in Naples |
| Date | 11 May 1821 |
| Author | Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) |
| Recipient | Hosack, David |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Government document |
| Content Description | Free franked. Jefferson thanks Hosack for a paper on Nosology, or classification of diseases, a topic that might have interested a man of science like Jefferson, since classification might help find cures. He soon turns to the exciting news of a revolution in Naples which, he writes "secures the efforts of Spain & Portugal, and must cheer the mind of every man of Philanthropy with the prospect it holds up of the extension of representative government to the whole continent of Europe except Russia which too in the end will become capable of it. In what a glorious station does it place us at the head of the world in a revolution from the despotism under which they have been held through all time, or a maniac licentiousness[,] to a state of well regulated liberty of which we have furnished the example." |
| Subjects | President Health and Medical Rebellion Global History and Civics Government and Civics |
| People | Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) |
| Place written | Monticello, Virginia |
| Theme | Science, Technology, Invention; Health & Medicine; Government & Politics; Foreign Affairs |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | Note: Not in Bergh, but compare 11: 245, a Jefferson letter discussing theories of nosology. Dr. Hosack studied under Benjamin Rush and later helped found New York's Bellevue Hospital. He was one of the first American surgeons to use stethoscopes in his work. Nosology is the classification of diseases. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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