Adam Kuhn

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Adam Kuhn is a Médecin and a American Naturaliste , born in 1741 with Germantown and died in 1817.

Wire of emigrants of German origin, he studies the Médecine and the Natural history of 1761 with 1764 with the Université of Uppsala in Sweden where he is probably only the American student of Carl von Linné (1707-1778). He continues his studies with the Université of Edinburgh where he obtains his title of doctor of medicine in 1767.

Kuhn returns to the the United States, where it practices medicine with Philadelphia. Of 1768 with 1789, he is professor of Materia medica and 1789 with 1797 at the Medical school of Philadelphia, now integrated into the Université of Pennsylvania. This school, founded in 1765, is the first medical school of the first thirteen colonies.

Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) written in his autobiography that Kuhn becomes, after the death of the doctor John Jones (1729-1791), the doctor more for Philadelphia. It looks after the main leaders of the government and is thus the family practitioner of George Washington (1732-1799). Kuhn off takes part in the foundation of the College Physicians off Philadelphia in 1787 which it directs in 1808.

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Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of October 31st, 2005).

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