Biographical memoir of Franklin Bache, M.D : prepared at the request of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia : read before the college, May 3d and June 7th, 1865 / by George B. Wood.

  • Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Biographical memoir of Franklin Bache, M.D : prepared at the request of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia : read before the college, May 3d and June 7th, 1865 / by George B. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    truth accurately, whatever I may be required to say of the joint pursuits of the deceased and myself. It will be difficult to compress, within the limits usually ascribed to memoirs like the present, all that will be necessary to give a faithful picture of the life of Dr. Bache in its various relations; but I shall en- deavour to be as concise as will be consistent with justice to the subject, avoiding minute detail unless when needful for the illustration of character, or pecu- liarly interesting in itself; and referring but briefly to certain circumstances in his history which may be more appropriately presented in another memoir, the prepara- tion of which has been committed to me by the Amer- ican Philosophical Society. Dr. Bache was the great-grandson of Benjamin Frank- lin, and the eldest in the regular line of descent from that great philosopher, statesman, and philanthropist. His grandfather, Richard Bache, born in England in September, 1737, emigrated while yet a young man to Pennsylvania, and married Sarah, the only daughter of Dr. Franklin, in October, 1767. While in England, in the year 1853, the late Dr. Bache and myself made a visit together to the Cathedral at Chester, where his attention was particularly attracted to the repeated occurrence of the name of Bache among the monu- mental inscriptions. We learned that the name be- longed to a family resident in the neighbourhood; and my companion thought it highly probable that they were related to his own, as the home of his grandfather