Article ID: CBB001421977

Benjamin Waterhouse (1754--1846) and the Riddle of Amos Babcock (2014)

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The late Dr Henry R Viets (1890--1969) suggested in 1940 that the author of A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts was Amos G Babcock. He also showed that Benjamin Waterhouse edited the manuscript. A similar journal, The Prisoner's Memoirs of Dartmoor Prison by Charles Andrews, is also described and contrasted. The career of Professor Waterhouse is narrated in relation to the medical politics at that time in New England: a possible explanation for Babcock's anonymous authorship is given.

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Authors & Contributors
Lara Pauline Karpenko
Ridley, Rosalind
Shalyn Rae Claggett
Nicoletta Vallorani
Bell, Bill
Zimmerman, Virginia Lee-Alice
Concepts
Science and culture
Science and literature
Imagination
Western world, civilization and culture
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Medieval
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
England
United States
France
Europe
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
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