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CALDWELL, CHARLES. An Eulogium of Caspar Wistar, Professor of Anatomy?ĶDelivered by Appointment, Before the Members of the Philadelphia Medical Society, and Published at Their Request. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson and Son, 1818. 1st ed. 8vo. 28 pp. Removed, whip-stitched along bottom edge. Sheets toned. $150.00

 

    S & S 43520. Austin 386. This, together with similar eulogies by William Tilghman and David Hoosack, "are the best contemporary accounts of Wistar's life."?��American National Biography Online. True to form, in the Autobiography Caldwell claims that he was denied access to documents that Tilghman obtained from Wistar's family: "Had I received from Mrs. B. the memoranda of the life of her kinsman, the Honorable Judge Tilghman should certainly have seen them. The competition [sic] between him and myself would have been thus rendered a fair one.... [H]e forfeited by this measure much of the respect toward him which I had previously entertained."