HUTCHINSON, JOHN, New York City, was born in Gilead, the town of Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, on February 28, 1860. His parents were John Calvin and Maryetta (Keeney) Hutchinson. He is a descendant of Edward Fuller, who came in the "Mayflower" in 1620; of William Hyde, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut; of Gibbons Jewett, surgeon in the revolutionary war; of Stephen Post, who came from Chelmsford, Essex, England, by ship "Griffin" to Hartford, 1633; of John Bissell, from Somersetshire, England, who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1628, and to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1640. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Hutchinson, Jr., served in the revolution, and his grandfather, John Bissell Hutchinson, was a captain in the state militia. Dr Hutchinson was educated in public and private schools. He prepared for his profession under the preceptorship of Dr Plumb Brown, Springfield, Massachusetts, in the medical department of the University of Vermont, and in the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, graduating in May 1898. He passed the licensing examination of the regents of the university of the state of New York (honour) in June 1898. He is engaged in general practice, treating chronic diseases particularly, and is an exponent of the homœopathic prescription. He is author of the following monographs: "Mercurius in Therapeutics," "Therapeutic Progress," "Relation of the Uric Acid Diathesis to Hysteria," "Folie du Doute," "Nature of Acute Articular Rheumatism," "The Prescription," "Menopause Therapy," "The Simillimum," "The Pathology that Defines the Drug," "Practical Materia Medica." He was a resident physician and registrar, dispensary of New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, 1898-1900; is visiting physician to Metropolitan Hospital; member of New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital clinical staff; visiting physician Flower Hospital; instructor in materia medica New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, and lecturer in the training school for nurses; necrologist, New York County Society of Homœopathy, 1902-5, and of the Homœopathic Society of the state of New York, 1905-6; president Alpha Sigma Alumni Association, 1904; president of the Bayard Club, 1905, and examiner in lunacy. He is a member of the following bodies: American Institute of Homœopathy, New York State Homœopathic Society, New York County Homœopathic Society, New York Materia Medica Society, New York Academy of Pathological Science, New York Clinical Club, Alumni Association New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, and the International Hahnemannian Association. He married Adaline Gillette Eldridge of South Manchester, Connecticut. They have one child, a daughter, Margaret Hutchinson.
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