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HISTORY OF MEDICINE
THE
LAST WORD
William Duncan, MD
In 2007 I undertook a project to research and write biographical sketches on each of the 27 physicians who founded the Medical Society of Delaware in 1789. The Delaware Medical Journal in October 2007. With a few
interruptions, I continued researching, writing, and publishing articles about the founders through November 2013.
Now all of the MSD Founder articles have been compiled into a book, Founders of the Medical Society of Delaware, which will be released at the Medical Society of Delaware’s 226th available there and I will be on hand for a book signing.
In addition, everyone who attends the Annual Meeting will
Delaware Medical History, housed at the MSD Building. This space will be a collection site for material relating to the history of medicine in our state. It will be available to historians and physicians researching Delaware’s medical history.
discovered and donated to it. A recent addition to the library is an unpublished manuscript titled Dr. James Tilton of Delaware, 1745-1822: A Patriot Doctor in Two Wars with
Great Britain, which I discovered in the Delaware Public Archives while conducting research on Dr. James Tilton, the
This unpublished 1,000-page manuscript of a biography of Dr. Tilton in seven bound “books” was included in other information on the founders from the Delaware Public Archives in Dover.
The author of the manuscript
is Francis Theodore Tilton, a
distant descendant of Dr. James
Tilton. Francis Tilton
(1884-1953) held a
number of positions
in business,
banking, and
on Wall Street
during his life.
In addition, he
was a church
organist and was
very active in the civic
where he lived. Theodore Tilton.
Left: Dr. James Tilton, one of 27 founding physicians of the Delaware Medical Society. Above: Francis
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