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Pacman: New page: {{wp-also}} '''David Hosack''' was an early Columbia professor of medicine and botany, known for attending to Alexander Hamilton after the duel that ended his life. Hosack entered [...

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'''David Hosack''' was an early Columbia professor of medicine and botany, known for attending to [[Alexander Hamilton]] after the duel that ended his life.

Hosack entered [[Columbia College]] excited to study art, but soon switched to medicine. He began an apprenticeship at a New York hospital but fled the city after a riot broke out over the hospital's extraction of buried corpses for medical teaching. Hosack finished his education in the seclusion of [[Princeton]], from which he graduated in 1789. He went on to graduate from a medical school in Pennsylvania and practice in Virginia before returning to New York. When he discovered that many doctors had educations obtained abroad, he impressed upon his father to fund a stint at the University of Edinburgh, where Hosack studied botany .

In addition to his care for Hamilton, Hosack's medical career was marked by his masterful stewardship of New York during several outbreaks of yellow fever. Hosack also cultivated America's first botanical garden, though it eventually fell into state hands due to lack of funding. The state, in turn, sold the land to Columbia, which found the project frivolous and shut it down. The land, known as the [[Upper Estate]], would eventually be used as the [[Midtown campus]].

In the meanwhile, Hosack had been appointed (in [[1795]]) a professor of natural history at Columbia, and obtained the chair of "Materia Medica" upon the death of [[William Pitt Smith]] in [[1797]]. He later helped found [[Rutgers]]' medical department.

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 '''David Hosack''' was an early Columbia professor of medicine and botany, known for attending to [[Alexander Hamilton]] after the duel that ended his life.
-Hosack entered [[Columbia College]] excited to study art, but soon switched to medicine. He began an apprenticeship at a New York hospital but fled the city after a riot broke out over the hospital's extraction of buried corpses for medical teaching. Hosack finished his education in the seclusion of [[Princeton]], from which he graduated in 1789. He went on to graduate from a medical school in Pennsylvania and practice in Virginia before returning to New York. When he discovered that many doctors had educations obtained abroad, he impressed upon his father to fund a stint at the University of Edinburgh, where Hosack studied botany .
+Hosack entered [[Columbia College]] excited to study art, but soon switched to medicine. He began an apprenticeship at a New York hospital but fled the city after a riot broke out over the hospital's extraction of buried corpses for medical teaching. Hosack finished his education in the seclusion of [[Princeton]], from which he graduated in 1789. He went on to graduate from a medical school in Pennsylvania and practice in Virginia before returning to New York. When he discovered that many doctors had educations obtained abroad, he impressed upon his father to fund a stint at the University of Edinburgh, where Hosack studied botany.
-In addition to his care for Hamilton, Hosack's medical career was marked by his masterful stewardship of New York during several outbreaks of yellow fever. Hosack also cultivated America's first botanical garden, though it eventually fell into state hands due to lack of funding. The state, in turn, gave the land as a back-handed gift to Columbia, which found the project frivolous and shut it down. The land, known as the [[Upper Estate]], would eventually become the cornerstone of Columbia's endowment when it was commercially developed in the mid-19th century. Today it is the site of [[Rockefeller Center]].
+In addition to his care for Hamilton, Hosack's medical career was marked by his masterful stewardship of New York during several outbreaks of yellow fever. Hosack also cultivated America's first botanical garden, the Elgin Botanical Gardens, though it eventually fell into state hands due to lack of funding. The state, in turn, gave the land as a back-handed gift to Columbia, which found the project frivolous and shut it down. The land, known as the [[Upper Estate]], would eventually become the cornerstone of Columbia's endowment when it was commercially developed in the mid-19th century. Today it is the site of [[Rockefeller Center]].
 In the meanwhile, Hosack had been appointed (in [[1795]]) a professor of natural history at Columbia, and obtained the chair of "Materia Medica" upon the death of [[William Pitt Smith]] in [[1797]]. He later helped found [[Rutgers]]' medical department.

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 In the meanwhile, Hosack had been appointed (in [[1795]]) a professor of natural history at Columbia, and obtained the chair of "Materia Medica" upon the death of [[William Pitt Smith]] in [[1797]]. He later helped found [[Rutgers]]' medical department.
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