Matthew Hopkins [SEP] medical condition
1692–93. These trials resulted in 19 executions for witchcraft, one man, Giles Corey, pressed to death for refusing to plead, and 150 imprisonments.
Death and legacy.
Matthew Hopkins died at his home in Manningtree, Essex, on 12 August 1647, probably of pleural tuberculosis. He was buried a few hours after his death in the graveyard of the Church of St Mary at Mistley Heath. In the words of historian Malcolm Gaskill, Matthew Hopkins "lives on as an anti-hero and bogeyman
-97), first physician-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, described as the "Father of Modern Medicine".
References.
- "Md Med J." 1985 Sep;34(9):900-12. "Supporting Maryland physicians: the Med-Chi staff". Lehman E.
- "The Medical Annals of Maryland. 1799-1899". Prepared for the centennial of the medical and chirurgical faculty. by William Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy (1843–1913).
External links.
- "MedChi" website