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About Jonathan Knight (physician)
- Jonathan Knight (September 4, 1789 – August 25, 1864) was an American physician and founding professor of the Yale Medical School. He was a son of Dr.
- Jonathan Knight, a Surgeon's mate in the Continental Army, and was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
- His mother was a daughter of Dr.
- Asahel Fitch, of Reading, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1808.
- For two years after graduation he taught school in Norwich and New London, Connecticut and was next a Tutor in Yale College for one year.
- He then attended two annual courses of medical lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, having already been licensed to practice, by the Connecticut Medical Society, in August, 1811.
- He received the honorary degree of M.
- D from Yale College in 1818. The Medical Institution of Yale College was organized in 1813, and he was appointed the Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.
- He continued in this post for twenty-five years, when he was transferred to the Chair of Surgery.
- After having lectured for more than fifty years to successive classes of students, he resigned all connection with the college, in May, 1864.
- For many years, in addition to his duties in the medical school, he lectured on Anatomy and Physiology to the Senior class in the Academical Department.
- During all his residence in New Haven, Connecticut he was engaged in extensive practice.
- He was President in 1846 and 1847 of the Convention which formed the American Medical Association, and was also President of the Association itself in 1853.
- At the time of his death he was President of the American Mutual Life Insurance Company.
- The Knight Hospital of the U.
- S Government in New Haven, now the Yale–New Haven Hospital, was named in his honor. He died in New Haven, aged 75 years, nearly.
- A funeral discourse by Rev.
- Dr Bacon, and a commemorative sketch by Prof.
- F Bacon, M.
- D., were printed. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
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