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 Georgia Medical Society - Savannah, GA
N 32° 04.701 W 081° 05.100
17S E 491978 N 3549123
The Georgia Medical Society historical marker is located in Washington Square Park in Savannah, GA.
Waymark Code: WM4HWP
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/28/2008
Views: 22
The marker reads:
"THE GEORGIA
MEDICAL SOCIETY |
The first Medical Society in Georgia, sixth oldest in America was organized June 28, 1804, and continues to be active in Savannah today. Dr. Noble Wimberly Jones, first President, was the son of a member of General Oglethorpe's first settlers of 1733.
Dr. Samuel Roberio Nunez, first practicing physician, arrived July 10, 1733, with the second expedition to the new colony. He arrived in time to treat successfully a raging epidemic of dysentery.
In 1740, the first clinic for the poor opened at nearby Bethesda under Dr. John Hunter and Reverend George Whitefield, who previously had founded America's oldest orphanage there.
The Georgia Medical Society adopted the state's first Code of Medical Ethics, achieved a program of systematic vaccination against smallpox, carried out health surveys of Savannah and surrounding counties, founded a Medical Library, formed the first systematic anti-malarial effort begun in the United States, and conducted extensive studies of Savannah's major epidemic diseases -- malaria, yellow fever and smallpox. |
| DEDICATED BY THE GEORGIA MEDICAL SOCIETY, DECEMBER 1983" |
Type of Marker: Park
Marker #: None
Date: December 1983
Sponsor: Georgia Medical Society
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