History of Medicine, Biography Abraham Wagner , Pennsylvanian German Physician

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Practitioner in Phylick: A Biography of Abraham Wagner, 1717-1763
By Andrew S. Berkey, Director, Schwenkfelder Library
Published by The Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, PA; 1954
Stated First Edition
Biography of this eighteenth century Pennsylvania, German physician, printed for the Pennsylvania German Society.  This is the story of "a consummate scholar at the age of twelve, an accomplished poet at fifteen and an established physician at twenty".  Includes numerous of his poems, most of which are in German.  Illustrated.