LEADER 05897cpcaa2200625 a 4500001 12730068 005 20240205163412.0 006 t 008 160311i17941807ctu eng d 035 12730068 040 CtY-BR |beng |cCtY-BR |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1056170240 099 9 Former call number: Z117 0265 100 1 Waterhouse, Benjamin, |d1754-1846. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79132024 245 10 Journal, |f1794-1807. 300 1 |fv. (88 p.) ; |c32 cm 336 unspecified |2rdacontent 337 unspecified |2rdamedia 338 unspecified |2rdacarrier 506 0 This material is open for research. 545 Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846), American physician and co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School, noted for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States. 520 Autograph manuscript written by Benjamin Waterhouse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Part travel journal and part meditation, it covers a journey he made in early summer 1794 from Ballston Springs (Ballston Spa), New York, north to Fort Edward and Lake George, and from there south to Saratoga, Schenectady, Cohoes, Troy, Albany, and New Lebanon, New York, where he stopped for a few days before starting his return to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Throughout the journal Waterhouse commented on the scenery, his fellow travelers, and his lodgings, in particular the innkeepers, but in between he digressed to essays on topics relevant to his situation with regular allusions to ancient Greek and Roman writings. 520 Waterhouse began his narrative by describing a visit to the Revolutionary War battlefield at Bemis Heights, New York, in the company of General Horatio Gates and his second wife Mary Valens Gates, and continued with an essay on the battles fought there, the conduct of General John Burgoyne, and the grave of General Simon Fraser. At Lake George, Waterhouse declined an invitation to go fishing on the lake; instead he wrote an essay on fish. On his way to Saratoga he reencountered General Gates and wrote an essay on the progress of architecture in America. At Saratoga, Waterhouse learned of the great fire in Boston on July 30, 1794, and wrote at length about the Boston fire clubs and other American firefighting associations; he amended and dated that essay on January 6, 1807. While in Saratoga he met a lawyer, attended a local court session, and wrote several pages on the judicial system and the practice of law in America. Between Schnectady and Albany Waterhouse visited the falls on the Mohawk River at Cohoes; one of his traveling companions was "Mr. H.," an Irish actor involved in the founding of the Federal Street Theatre in Boston, leading Waterhouse to record their discussion of and thoughts on drama and Shakespeare. The journal ends with Waterhouse's stay in New Lebanon where he and his traveling partners lodged for a week to take advantage of the medicinal springs. There he wrote about hypochondria and insanity in America, after which he copied out a letter he sent to Dr. Joshua Barker in 1796 regarding the suicide of Frederick Henry Ibbekin in Hingham, Massachusetts. The journal ends with Waterhouse's seven-page description of the Shakers and their settlement at nearby Mount Lebanon. 581 "Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse's Journey to Saratoga Springs in the Summer of 1794," by Barbara Damon Simison, in Yale University Gazette 40, no. 1 (July 1965), p. 18-48; the edited transcription was continued in vol. 1, no. 2, October 1965, p. 82-103. 561 Gift of Sylvester Waterhouse, 1870. 546 In English. 524 Benjamin Waterhouse, Journal. 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