Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

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ity of all the medical societies and medical schools in the
Union. In January, 1817, he submitted the project to the
New York county medical society; in February, 1818, it
was adopted by the medical society of the State of New
York and ordered to be carried into execution by their
committee, Dr. Spalding being one of the number. All the
medical schools and societies appointed delegates, who at
once commenced their labors, and the first edition of the
work was published in 1820. To keep pace with the
advancement of medical science, a new edition is published
every ten years. Dr. Spalding was a contributor to the
"' New England Journal of Medicine,' the "New York Medical Repository," "Lenoureau Journal of Medicine," of
Paris, and other medical and philosophical journals; and,
beside several lectures and addresses, he published " Reiections on Fever, and particularly on the Inflammatory
Character of Fever," (1817;) " Reflections on Yellow Fever
Periods," (1819,) and "A History of the Introduction and
use of 8cutellaria Lateriflora as a Remedy for preventing
and curing Hydrophobia," (1819.) Dr. Spalding was active
in introducing into the United States the practice of vaccination as a preventive of the small pox. He was a
trustee of the only free schools which New York then
possessed, and aided in the establishment of the first Suns
day schools in that city.
The above honorable mention of one of the citizens of
Portsmouth, whose children are now among us, we find in
the 14th volume of the New American Cyclopoedia.
Peter Coues, came to Portsmouth from the Island of
Jersey in the English Channel, and in this town, Nov. 4th,
1735, married Mary, daughter of Emanuel Long. She was
born at Plymouth, Mass,, January 19th, 1713. He died at
an advanced age about 1783, at the residence of his son
Peter, who was born July 30th, 1736, and married Oct.
25th, 1768, Mary, and Oct. 12th, 1779,.Elizabeth, daughters