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Upon his return home, he resumed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, graduated with his degree in medicine in 1785 and returned to Sussex County to enter\u00a0the field of medicine.<\/p>\nDr. Edward Miller was born in Dover, Delaware in 1760. He was the son of Rev. John and Margaret Miller, who headed the Presbyterian Church in Dover. Both Edward and his younger brother, Samuel, were astute\u00a0scholars and\u00a0well versed in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek languages. Before concluding his studies at Newark Academy, Delaware, Edward entered the army as surgeon\u2019s mate and later\u00a0became a surgeon to an army ship.<\/p>\n
Upon his return home, he resumed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, graduated with his degree in medicine in 1785 and returned to Sussex County to enter\u00a0the field of medicine.<\/p>\n
Dr. Miller achieved excellence throughout his work and was an outstanding public speaker. He captured the ears of many with\u00a0various speeches for a number of societies, including his first, the inaugural address\u00a0at the Delaware Medical Society, only five years post-graduation. \u00a0In 1793, Dr. Miller prepared a paper defending the theory of the domestic origin of yellow fever. Dr. Benjamin Rush, on receiving a copy of it,\u00a0declared its author second to no physician in the United States at the time.<\/p>\n
As various papers written by\u00a0Dr. Miller began to circulate, he moved to New York City in 1796 and, in with Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Elihu Smith, established what would be the United States\u2019 first medical journal:\u00a0The Medical Repository.\u00a0<\/em>Dr. Edward Miller\u2019s genius is evident in his papers through his style, arguments, originality, and his growing body of\u00a0knowledge.<\/p>\n During his time in New York, Dr. Miller became a port physician of New York, a In the\u00a0Medical Repository,\u00a0<\/em>Dr. Miller published observations on cholera. He\u00a0recommended calomel and opium in a form very different from what his peers\u00a0recommended because he correctly believed the liver to be a material factor in\u00a0the course of the disease. He continued to assert that opiates and aromatics alone were merely temporizing remedies and suggested the additional use of calomel.<\/p>\n Dr. Miller retired in 1810, serving only\u00a0private patients in their homes in New York City.<\/p>\n Dr. Edward Miller died March, 17 1812, at the age of 55. Dr. Rush wrote a touching memorial of his life, as did other notable physicians of that time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Edward Miller was born in Dover, Delaware in 1760. He was the son of Rev. John and Margaret Miller, who headed the Presbyterian Church in Dover. Both Edward and his younger brother, Samuel, were astute\u00a0scholars and\u00a0well versed in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek languages. Before concluding his studies at Newark Academy, Delaware, Edward entered the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Edward](\"http:\/\/exhibits.ptsem.edu\/edwardmiller\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/06\/Edward-Miller2.jpg\" "\\"Edward")
Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of New York, a\u00a0physician at New York Hospital, now known as New York-Presbyterian, and an active member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Both his flourishing reputation and respected published works\u00a0brought about worldly connections with the most eminent men of the age in Great Britain, Germany, and France.<\/p>\n