Bowdoin College
Library / George J. Mitchell Dept. of Special Collections & Archives

The Medical School of Maine, 1820-1920

The Faculty & Curriculum of the Medical School

Parker Cleaveland’s copy of C.H. Cleaveland’s “Pronouncing Medical Lexicon: containing the correct pronounciation and definition of most of the terms used by speakers and writers of medicine and the collateral sciences with addenda.” Cincinnati: Longley Bros., 1855.

Parker Cleaveland’s copy of C.H. Cleaveland’s “Pronouncing Medical Lexicon: containing the correct pronounciation and definition of most of the terms used by speakers and writers of medicine and the collateral sciences with addenda.” Cincinnati: Longley Bros., 1855.
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Instead, in 1803 he became a tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard and, in 1805, joined the faculty of the recently established Bowdoin College as the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, where he taught until his death in 1858.

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