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Josiah Bartlett

Name: Josiah Bartlett
Uploaded: 2025-06-26T15:41:54+00:00
Duration: 1 min 36 s
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Description: Josiah Bartlett, a Revolutionary-era physician, describes treating fevers with cool cider and diphtheria with Peruvian bark while resisting harmful…

26 Jun 2025 · 2 min

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Josiah Bartlett, a Revolutionary-era physician, describes treating fevers with cool cider and diphtheria with Peruvian bark while resisting harmful medical practices. He recounts his political acts: opposing taxation, having his house burned, and claiming he was first to vote and second to sign the Declaration of Independence. He frames medicine and civic duty as inseparable.

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June 26, 2025.

21.

Peruvian bark (quinine).

Cool cider.

He said he was the first to vote and the second to sign.

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Foreign. My name is Josiah Bartlett. Physician by calling, patriot by choice. I began practicing medicine at 21, armed with little more than a pocket full of bark, a few tools and the fierce determination to do right by my neighbors. When fever swept through my town, I did the unthinkable. I gave my patients cool cider, not scalding broth. And when diphtheria struck, I used Peruvian bark, quinine. When others bled or starved their patients. Medicine taught me to preserve life. One must confront what threatens it. And liberty, like health, withers without vigilance. When the crown taxed without consent, I stood against it, first in our assembly, then in Congress. My house was burned for it. I rebuilt it. Then, when vote came for independence, I made the rafters shake with my aye. I was the first to vote and the second to sign. A nation was born in that chamber, and a doctor's oath, first to do no harm, applies. Still defend this republic lest it perish from neglect.