A Compendium of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, for the Use of Students and Practitioners.

Potter, Stephen H.

Editore: Butler County Democrat Print; Hamilton, Ohio; 1879., 1879

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Second edition, "revised and enlarged". Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper by the author's grandson, Dr. J. S. H. Potter, dated Apr 17, 1895. A rare Ohio/American medical imprint (five OCLC library holdings for this second edition; none for the first edition). Full leather, gilt spine lettering, 8 3/4 x 6 inches, 500 pp., index, two small illustrations. Good plus or very good minus. Dr. Potter assisted the escape of a fugitive slave to Canada: "Perhaps the most notable incident in the extended and eventful life of Dr. POTTER was the rescue of a fugitive slave named Jerry in Syracuse, New York, about 1852. It occurred soon after the fugitive slave law was passed, and on the occasion of holding a national anti-slavery convention at that place. Daniel WEBSTER had recently delivered a speech to an immense concourse there, threatening that "when this convention thronged the city, a noted fugitive would be arrested and taken back to slavery. The United States Government would teach the people that there was potency in law." Four United States marshals had been detailed from as many adjacent cities, and the whole police force of Syracuse were ready. Jerry was arrested and placed in chains. About thirty thousand people were waiting to witness the scene. The man, with blue eyes, red cheeks, and brown curly hair, with no other semblance of a negro, was taken away from the officers by the mob, and finally placed by Dr. POTTER in the grounds of a residence inhabited by a stiff pro-slavery man, where the most active search failed to find him. After the lapse of a week, and search having been made from house to house, when detection was imminent, the doctor arranged with Jerry's host to drive in with a meat wagon, got Jerry in, and, covered with blankets, he drove before the door of the Syracuse House, hitched, went in with the doctor, took cigars, and drove out through the city about 4 P.M. in beautiful sunshine, no one suspecting the presence of Jerry. After reaching Brewerton, seventeen miles; Dr. POTTER took Jerry in his carriage, sending the team back, and conveyed the fugitive to Mexicoville and by the underground railroad to a small harbor on Lake Ontario, whence he obtained a passage on a small sailing vessel to Canada. No more noted fugitive slave case ever occurred in the United States, and in it the doctor was the principal agent of success." (3214027).

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• Titolo: A Compendium of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, for the Use of Students and Practitioners.
• Editore: Butler County Democrat Print; Hamilton, Ohio; 1879.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1879
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 2nd Edition
• Stampa: Seconda stampa
• Condizione: Good
• Firmato: Signed by Author(s)
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