Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) was an American physician and anatomist. Download high resolution version (794x924, 161 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... Greek anatome, from ana-temnein, to cut up), is the branch of biology that deals with the structure and organization of living things; thus there is animal anatomy (zootomy) and plant anatomy (phytonomy). ...

He was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas Wistar (1764–1851) and Mary Waln Wistar (1765–1844) and the grandson of Caspar Wistar (1696–1752), a German immigrant, Quaker and glassmaker. In 1788 he married Isablla Marshall, who died in 1790. He married Elizabeth Mifflin in 1798. Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell Official languages None Area 119,283 km² (33rd)  - Land 116,074 km²  - Water 3,208 km² (2. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ... 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. ... 1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... The physics definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough time for a regular crystal lattice to form. ... 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, then on his return to the U.S. taught at the University of Pennsylvania, developing a set of anatomical models — human remains preserved by injecting them with wax — to assist with the teaching of anatomy. He was an early promoter of vaccination. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 he suffered an attack of the disease contracted while caring for his patients. He published A System of Anatomy in two volumes from 1811–1814. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn, although the former is the preferred and recognized nickname of the University) is a private university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a member of the Ivy League. ... Vaccination is a term coined by Edward Jenner for the process of administering a weakened form of a disease to patients as a means of giving them immunity to a more serious form of the disease. ... An epidemic is generally a widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1787 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society and from 1815 to 1818 he served as president. 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, continues to operate to this day. ... 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

The botanist Thomas Nuttall named the genus Wisteria in his honour (some call it Wistaria but the misspelling is conserved under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature). Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... Thomas Nuttall (January 5, 1786 - September 10, 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist, who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1842. ... See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... Species See text This article is about the plant. ... The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature is the set of rules according to which plants are given their formal botanical names (scientific names). ...

External links

• Caspar Wistar paper (http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/w/wistar.htm) at the American Philosophical Society (http://www.amphilsoc.org/)