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During forty years, with very few exceptions, he was a daily visitor at the Dispensary. To meet the demands of the poor for medical relief, caused by a large increase of population, a dispensary was established in Southwark and one in the Northern Liberties in 1816. In the foundation of these additional charities he was probably no less actively interested than he had been, thirty years before, in instituting the first : so that, as Dr. Emerson says, 'he may be fairly considered as the father of the dispensaries of his native city.'
That Dr. Griffitts was the first person who actively engaged in the establishment of a Dispensary in Philadelphia rests upon the most respectable testimony. But the credit of having originally proposed the plan he has ingenuously ascribed to another, in a short manuscripts written by him, and left among his papers
He was professor of Materia Medica at the University 1791-6: was founder of the Philadelphia Dispensary; one of the founders of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, its secretary in 1788 and vice-president in 1818. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1785.
Three weeks later, Powel himself was down with the [yellow] fever...his nephew Samuel Powel Griffitts, now a doctor, stayed with him night and day, but his case was fatal and at six o'clock in the morning of 29 September [1793] he died (page 268)..."To his sister Abigail Powel Griffitts, he bequeathed a small annuity (page 269)
During the following year 1785 a visitor, Dr. Henry Moyes who was delivering a course of lectures on natural philosophy in Philadelphia, suggested to Griffitts and to his uncle Samuel Powel the project of a free dispensary.
The son of a prominent Welsh family, Powel is best known for his two terms as Mayor of Philadelphia, from 1775-1776 and from 1789-1790.1 The office of mayor lay vacant between his two terms; thus, Powel was the last colonial era mayor of Philadelphia, and the first mayor of the city after independence was secured.
Among the voluntary first aid workers at Germantown were Caspar Wistar and Samuel Powel Griffitts; and in both, this experience weighed heavily in the choice of a profession. Adam Kuhn, a student and friend of Linnaeus, became Griffitts' preceptor and the intimacy between the two grew with the years.
Among the voluntary first aid workers at Germantown were Caspar Wistar and Samuel Powel Griffitts; and in both, this experience weighed heavily in the choice of a profession. Adam Kuhn, a student and friend of Linnaeus, became Griffitts' preceptor and the intimacy between the two grew with the years.
To an English correspondent the elder Dr. Shippen wrote, 'My son has had his education in the best college in this part of the country, and has been studying physic with me, besides which he has had the opportunity of seeing the practice of every gentleman of note in our city. But for want of that variety of operations and those frequent dissections which are common in older countries, I must send him to Europe.'
Among the voluntary first aid workers at Germantown were Caspar Wistar and Samuel Powel Griffitts; and in both, this experience weighed heavily in the choice of a profession. Adam Kuhn, a student and friend of Linnaeus, became Griffitts' preceptor and the intimacy between the two grew with the years.
