THE

EARLY PHYSICIANS

OF

PHILADELPHIA AND ITS VICINITY.

AN ADDRESS

AT

THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE

ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENT PHYSICIANS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL,
DECEMBER 17TH, 1885,

BY

JAMES J. LEVICK, M. D.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY THOMAS WILLIAM STUCKEY,

S. E. Cor. Seventh and Arch Streets.

1886.

TO WILLIAM BIDDLE,

WHO, FOR THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS, HAS BEEN A MEMBER

AND FOR THE LAST THIRTEEN YEARS

PRESIDENT

OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL,