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Mussey, Reuben Dimond, 1780-1866

 

Dates

  • Existence: 1780 - 1866

Biography

Reuben Dimond Mussey was born in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in 1780. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1803, after which he studied medicine under Nathan Smith. In 1809, he Mussey graduated to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and became a professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and Middlebury College. Mussey was an advocate of the temperance movement and was part of the temperance society at Dartmouth College which had been founded in 1828. In 1838 he went to Cincinnati where he became a professor at the Medical College of Ohio. In 1850 he served as president of the American Medical Association. He founded the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati in 1852. Mussey died in 1866.

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Reuben Dimond Mussey letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 827365
Mss 827365
Date(s): 1827-06-15
Abstract

In English.

Reuben Dimond Mussey letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 828418
Mss 828418
Date(s): 1828-07-18
Abstract

In English.

Reuben Dimond Mussey letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 833681
Mss 833681
Date(s): 1833-12-31
Abstract

In English.

Reuben Dimond Mussey letter of certification

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 821311
Mss 821311
Date(s): 1821-05-11
Abstract

In English.

Reuben Mussey letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 803221
Mss 803221
Date(s): 1803-03-21
Abstract

In English.

Reuben Mussey Medical Lectures Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: 003348
Codex 003348
Date(s): 1836
Abstract

Notes taken by Reuben Dimond Mussey (1780-1866) of a lecture by John Delamater entitled "Theory and Practice," and another lecture entitled "Chemical Facts" by O.P. Hubbard, as well as lecture notes by Mussey on operations performed before the medical class and "The World of Nature."

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