Nicholas Way (333)

Election date: 1773

Nicholas Way (c.1747–1797) was a physician, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1773. From New Castle County, Delaware, Way studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1771. He did not fight in the Revolutionary War due to his Quaker beliefs, however he joined the Delaware convention that ratified the federal constitution in 1787. He helped organize the Medical Society of Delaware, becoming a founding member in 1789. During the Yellow Fever outbreak of 1793 in Philadelphia, Way personally hosted a large group of refugees from the disease at his mansion in Wilmington. The following year, his friend President George Washington appointed him Treasurer of the United States Mint. He died of a fever three years later.



Member(s): Nicholas Way
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Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de variolarum insitione : Quam, sub moderamine Reverendi admodum viri Gulielmi Smith, S.S.T.P. Collegii et Adademiae Philadelphiensis praefecti, ex perillustrium curatorum auctoritate, nec non amplissimae collegii et academiae facultatis decreto, Deo ter optimo maximo annuente, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite ac legitime consequendis, eruditorum examini subjectam sustinuit Nicolaus Way, M.B. Wilmingtoniensis apud Delaware, ad diem 28 Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Creator(s):
Way, Nicholas, approximately 1750-1797 (Author)
Publication:
Philadelphiae [Philadelphia]: Apud Henricum Miller, [1771]
Subjects:
Smallpox -- Vaccination. | Vaccination -- History.
Record Source:
ESTC
References:
Evans 12275
APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1771 (Philadelphiae [Philadelphia])
Editions Note:

One edition.

Holding Note: APS has one copy, which was collected by John Vaughan. View Holding