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Document 17133 JOHN M. BERRIEN Jackson's former Attorney General asks a Philadelphia doctor to take care of his ill daughter. ALS: "Jno: MacPherson Berrien", 1p, 7x8¾. Rockingham near Clarkeville, Habersham Co., Georgia, 1855 September 5. To Doctor Meigs. In part: "I desire to bring myself to your recollection, and to ask your professional attention to my daughter Miss Sallie Berrien, who is a pupil in the school of the Misses Mieneken in your city. I sent her, with her sister, to these ladies in the spring...I have been surprised to learn within a few days, that Sallie is suffering with what her physician Doct Beardsley supposes to be prolapsus uteri. I do not understand that he has subjected her to any treatment, merely subscribing rest, and the absence of excitement. I have directed her removal to Philadelphia, and that she should be placed under your care, to which I beg especially to commend her...." Berrien represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat (1825-1829), served as Jackson's Attorney General (1829-1831) and was elected U.S. Senator as a Whig (1841-1845, 1845-1847, 1847-1852), resigning each time, being elected to succeed himself in 1845 and 1847. Meigs was most probably DR. JAMES AITKEN MEIGS (1829-1879) who was, at the time of this letter, a lecturer on climatology and physiology at Franklin Institute and physician to the department of diseases of the chest in Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables. Vertical fold touches the "r" in MacPherson, else in fine condition. SEE IF DOCUMENT 17133 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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