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John Putnam Batchelder (August 6, 1784 – April 8, 1868) was an American
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Biography

Batchelder was born in
Wilton, New Hampshire Wilton is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,896 at the 2020 census. Like many small New England towns, it grew up around water-powered textile mills, but is now a rural bedroom community with some m ...
, August 6, 1784, into the wealthy family of Archelaus Batchelder; he died in
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, April 8, 1868. He was a great-nephew of Gen.
Israel Putnam Israel Putnam (January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790), popularly known as "Old Put", was an American military officer and landowner who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). He als ...
through his mother Betsey who was Putnam's niece. After an academic education, he began the study of medicine, and in 1807 was licensed to practice. He did not receive the degree of
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, however, until 1815, after attendance on the lectures of
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. He began practice in
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, removed thence to
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; afterward to
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, and in 1843 to New York City. He was appointed professor of anatomy in
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, in 1817, and soon afterward professor of surgical anatomy in the Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield. He was a successful surgeon, and performed many operations of great importance, and requiring extraordinary skill and daring. For many years he made the treatment of diseases of the eye a specialty. He was president of the Academy of Medicine, and of the New York Medical Association in 1858. He published "Thoughts on the Connection of Life, Mind, and Matter", besides essays and medical treatises.


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Thoughts on the Connection of Life, Mind, and Matter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Batchelder, John Putnam 1784 births 1868 deaths 19th-century American people Physicians from New Hampshire People from Wilton, New Hampshire Harvard Medical School alumni Middlebury College alumni