Excerpt from Memoir of Joseph Carson, M. D: Late One of the Censors of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Emeritus Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania, Etc Dr. Joseph Carson was born in Philadelphia, on Easter Monday, the 19th of April, 1808, and died December 30, 1876, in his sixty-ninth year. His paternal ancestors were origin ally from Scotland, and belonged to that rigid and staunch Presbyterian denomination which has made its deep impress upon the politics and institutions of our country. They left Scotland during the tyrannical reign of the Stuarts, and passed over to the north of Ireland. In 1735, three brothers, Andrew, William, and Joseph, emigrated to this country. Joseph (the grandfather of the subject of our notice) settled in Philadelphia, and was one of its old shipping merchants, who, like Robert Morris, loaned his credit to the Continental Congress during the struggle for independence of his adopted country. His son (also named Joseph), a highly respected merchant, though unsuccessful in business, was united in marriage to Elizabeth Laurence, daughter of Isaac Laurence, of Long Island. The issue of this union was five children, of whom Joseph, the future Professor Carson, was the eldest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.