This brief biography is from the History of Freetown:
Dr. William Carpenter was born in Rehoboth in 1771, pursued his medical studies with his uncle, Dr. Jesse Bullock, and finally took a large share of the practice. With medical literature and many of those branches usually pursued in medical schools, he was probably not intimately acquainted; his knowledge was obtained rather at the bedside of the sick than from books. He possessed a delicacy of discrimination which the mere book-worm might envy. His method of treatment was heroic, and he was very successful. His native good sense, mechanical turn of mind and a lack of anything like timidity in seasons of danger, eminently fitted him for his profession. He was famed for his success in treatment of intermittent fever by active emetics and cathartics. He was naturally irascible and combative, and had it not been for his religious principle he might have been quarrelsome, for he frequently acknowledged that the control of his temper had cost him many a severe effort. Dr. Carpenter's influence in public and private was thrown decidedly on the side of order and good morals. He died December 6, 1849, aged 78 years.
Dr. William Carpenter was born in Rehoboth in 1771, pursued his medical studies with his uncle, Dr. Jesse Bullock, and finally took a large share of the practice. With medical literature and many of those branches usually pursued in medical schools, he was probably not intimately acquainted; his knowledge was obtained rather at the bedside of the sick than from books. He possessed a delicacy of discrimination which the mere book-worm might envy. His method of treatment was heroic, and he was very successful. His native good sense, mechanical turn of mind and a lack of anything like timidity in seasons of danger, eminently fitted him for his profession. He was famed for his success in treatment of intermittent fever by active emetics and cathartics. He was naturally irascible and combative, and had it not been for his religious principle he might have been quarrelsome, for he frequently acknowledged that the control of his temper had cost him many a severe effort. Dr. Carpenter's influence in public and private was thrown decidedly on the side of order and good morals. He died December 6, 1849, aged 78 years.
This brief biography is from the History of Freetown:
Dr. William Carpenter was born in Rehoboth in 1771, pursued his medical studies with his uncle, Dr. Jesse Bullock, and finally took a large share of the practice. With medical literature and many of those branches usually pursued in medical schools, he was probably not intimately acquainted; his knowledge was obtained rather at the bedside of the sick than from books. He possessed a delicacy of discrimination which the mere book-worm might envy. His method of treatment was heroic, and he was very successful. His native good sense, mechanical turn of mind and a lack of anything like timidity in seasons of danger, eminently fitted him for his profession. He was famed for his success in treatment of intermittent fever by active emetics and cathartics. He was naturally irascible and combative, and had it not been for his religious principle he might have been quarrelsome, for he frequently acknowledged that the control of his temper had cost him many a severe effort. Dr. Carpenter's influence in public and private was thrown decidedly on the side of order and good morals. He died December 6, 1849, aged 78 years.
Dr. William Carpenter was born in Rehoboth in 1771, pursued his medical studies with his uncle, Dr. Jesse Bullock, and finally took a large share of the practice. With medical literature and many of those branches usually pursued in medical schools, he was probably not intimately acquainted; his knowledge was obtained rather at the bedside of the sick than from books. He possessed a delicacy of discrimination which the mere book-worm might envy. His method of treatment was heroic, and he was very successful. His native good sense, mechanical turn of mind and a lack of anything like timidity in seasons of danger, eminently fitted him for his profession. He was famed for his success in treatment of intermittent fever by active emetics and cathartics. He was naturally irascible and combative, and had it not been for his religious principle he might have been quarrelsome, for he frequently acknowledged that the control of his temper had cost him many a severe effort. Dr. Carpenter's influence in public and private was thrown decidedly on the side of order and good morals. He died December 6, 1849, aged 78 years.
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