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 Moultrie was born in South Carolina to a Scottish father, [[John Moultrie (1702-1771)]], himself a graduate of Edinburgh University. He arrived in Edinburgh on 25 August 1746 in a state of some trepidation. The [[The University and the '45|1745-46 Jacobite Uprising]] was barely over and he had heard that 'poor Scotland is in a bad condition' and 'whole familys die famished'. The city, however, was 'easyer than I thought it would be after the Rebellion, only the ladys are always squabling for there is a number of them Jacobites'. The one hardship that Moultrie suffered as a result of the conflict was the impossibility of finding a 'surgeon lad' to act as his assistant, as all had left the capital to serve the warring armies.
-Moultrie took up lodgings with 'seven, sober young students' on the advice of the recently retirerd Professor [[Andrew Sinclair (c1698-1760)]] who 'takes some pains about me'. He studied [[Anatomy]] under [[Alexander Monro ''primus'' (1697-1767)]], the Practice of Physic under [[John Rutherford (1695-1779)]] and [[Institutes of Medicine]] under Sinclair's replacement [[Robert Whytt (1714-1766)]]  who 'gives great satisfaction to all his hearers'. Moultire was among the first students to benefit when Rutherford innovatively introduced clinical lectures into the curriculum in 1748. He writes (2 February 1748):
+Moultrie took up lodgings with 'seven, sober young students' on the advice of the recently retired Professor [[Andrew Sinclair (c1698-1760)]] who 'takes some pains about me'. He studied [[Anatomy]] under [[Alexander Monro ''primus'' (1697-1767)]], the Practice of Physic under [[John Rutherford (1695-1779)]] and [[Institutes of Medicine]] under Sinclair's replacement [[Robert Whytt (1714-1766)]]  who 'gives great satisfaction to all his hearers'. Moultire was among the first students to benefit when Rutherford innovatively introduced clinical lectures into the curriculum in 1748. He writes (2 February 1748):
 <blockquote>'We have a new Class set on footing here this winter, by our Professor of ye Practice of Physic, which  is to lecture on the Cases of ye Patients in the Infirmary, in which he gives the Diagnosis, Prognosis and Method of Cure, which Lectures are reckon'd very valuable and serviceable.'</blockquote>

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 Moultrie was born in South Carolina to a Scottish father, [[John Moultrie (1702-1771)]], himself a graduate of Edinburgh University. He arrived in Edinburgh on 25 August 1746 in a state of some trepidation. The [[The University and the '45|1745-46 Jacobite Uprising]] was barely over and he had heard that 'poor Scotland is in a bad condition' and 'whole familys die famished'. The city, however, was 'easyer than I thought it would be after the Rebellion, only the ladys are always squabling for there is a number of them Jacobites'. The one hardship that Moultrie suffered as a result of the conflict was the impossibility of finding a 'surgeon lad' to act as his assistant, as all had left the capital to serve the warring armies.
-Moultrie took up lodgings with 'seven, sober young students' on the advice of the recently retirerd Professor [[Andrew Sinclair (c1698-1760)]] who 'takes some pains about me'. He studied [[Anatomy]] under [[Alexander Monro ''primus'' (1697-1767)]], the Practice of Physic under [[John Rutherford (1695-1779)]] and Institutes of Medicine under Sinclair's replacement [[Robert Whytt (1714-1766)]]  who 'gives great satisfaction to all his hearers'. Moultire was among the first students to benefit when Rutherford innovatively introduced clinical lectures into the curriculum in 1748. He writes (2 February 1748):
+Moultrie took up lodgings with 'seven, sober young students' on the advice of the recently retirerd Professor [[Andrew Sinclair (c1698-1760)]] who 'takes some pains about me'. He studied [[Anatomy]] under [[Alexander Monro ''primus'' (1697-1767)]], the Practice of Physic under [[John Rutherford (1695-1779)]] and [[Institutes of Medicine]] under Sinclair's replacement [[Robert Whytt (1714-1766)]]  who 'gives great satisfaction to all his hearers'. Moultire was among the first students to benefit when Rutherford innovatively introduced clinical lectures into the curriculum in 1748. He writes (2 February 1748):
 <blockquote>'We have a new Class set on footing here this winter, by our Professor of ye Practice of Physic, which  is to lecture on the Cases of ye Patients in the Infirmary, in which he gives the Diagnosis, Prognosis and Method of Cure, which Lectures are reckon'd very valuable and serviceable.'</blockquote>

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 Moultrie was born in South Carolina to a Scottish father, [[John Moultrie (1702-1771)]], himself a graduate of Edinburgh University. He arrived in Edinburgh on 25 August 1746 in a state of some trepidation. The [[The University and the '45|1745-46 Jacobite Uprising]] was barely over and he had heard that 'poor Scotland is in a bad condition' and 'whole familys die famished'. The city, however, was 'easyer than I thought it would be after the Rebellion, only the ladys are always squabling for there is a number of them Jacobites'. The one hardship that Moultrie suffered as a result of the conflict was the impossibility of finding a 'surgeon lad' to act as his assistant, as all had left the capital to serve the warring armies.
-Moultrie took up lodgings with 'seven, sober young students' on the advice of the recently retirerd Professor [[Andrew Sinclair (c1698-1760)]] who 'takes some pains about me'. He studied [[Anatomy]] under [[Alexander Monro ''primus'' (1697-1767)]], the [[Practice of Physic]] under [[John Rutherford (1695-1779)]] and [[Institutes of Medicine]] under Sinclair's replacement [[Robert Whytt (1714-1766)]]  who 'gives great satisfaction to all his hearers'. Moultire was among the first students to benefit when Rutherford innovatively introduced clinical lectures into the curriculum in 1748. He writes (2 February 1748):
+Moultrie took up lodgings with 'seven, sober young students' on the advice of the recently retirerd Professor [[Andrew Sinclair (c1698-1760)]] who 'takes some pains about me'. He studied [[Anatomy]] under [[Alexander Monro ''primus'' (1697-1767)]], the Practice of Physic under [[John Rutherford (1695-1779)]] and Institutes of Medicine under Sinclair's replacement [[Robert Whytt (1714-1766)]]  who 'gives great satisfaction to all his hearers'. Moultire was among the first students to benefit when Rutherford innovatively introduced clinical lectures into the curriculum in 1748. He writes (2 February 1748):
 <blockquote>'We have a new Class set on footing here this winter, by our Professor of ye Practice of Physic, which  is to lecture on the Cases of ye Patients in the Infirmary, in which he gives the Diagnosis, Prognosis and Method of Cure, which Lectures are reckon'd very valuable and serviceable.'</blockquote>

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 [[File:Moultrie.jpg | border | 200 px | right | thumb | John Moultrie (1729-1798)]]In 1749 [[John Moultrie (1729-1798)]] became the first US-born graduate of Edinburgh University.
 Moultrie was born in South Carolina to a Scottish father, [[John Moultrie (1702-1771)]], himself a graduate of Edinburgh University. He arrived in Edinburgh on 25 August 1746 in a state of some trepidation. The [[The University and the '45|1745-46 Jacobite Uprising]] was barely over and he had heard that 'poor Scotland is in a bad condition' and 'whole familys die famished'. The city, however, was 'easyer than I thought it would be after the Rebellion, only the ladys are always squabling for there is a number of them Jacobites'. The one hardship that Moultrie suffered as a result of the conflict was the impossibility of finding a 'surgeon lad' to act as his assistant, as all had left the capital to serve the warring armies.
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 <blockquote>'We have a new Class set on footing here this winter, by our Professor of ye Practice of Physic, which  is to lecture on the Cases of ye Patients in the Infirmary, in which he gives the Diagnosis, Prognosis and Method of Cure, which Lectures are reckon'd very valuable and serviceable.'</blockquote>
 Moutrie graduated in 1749 with a thesis on yellow fever: 'De Febre maligna biliosa Americae'. His name appears on the printed roll as 'Joannes Moultrie, ex Carolina Meridionali provincia'. Moutrie's thesis was soon recognized as the most authoritative work on yellow fever to date and a study for which there was a pressing need. Known as the 'the Terror of the South', yellow fever ravaged the Atlantic coastline for over a century. Moultrie himself had already survived three epidemics of the disease before travelling to Edinburgh. A further edition of Moultrie's thesis was published in Langensalza, Germany, in 1768, and it was subsequently translated into French and German.
 Moultrie junior was the first of 117 American students to graduate from Edinburgh's [[Faculty of Medicine|Medical School]] by the end of the eighteenth century. Other distinguished US alumni of Edinburgh's medical school include:
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 *[[Foundation of Faculty of Medicine, 1726]]
 *[[The University and the '45]]
 [[Category:Events|First American Graduate, 1749]][[Category:Incomplete|First American Graduate, 1749]]

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 *[[John Knox Witherspoon (1723-1794)]], Scots-born signatory of the Declaration of Independence and President of Princeton University
-== Related Pages --
+== Related Pages ==
 *[[Foundation of Faculty of Medicine, 1726]]

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 In 1749 [[John Moultrie (1729-1798)]] became the first US-born graduate of Edinburgh University.
-Moultrie was born in South Carolina to a Scottish father, [[John Moultrie (1702-1771)]], himself a graduate of Edinburgh University. He was the first of 117 American students to graduate from Edinburgh's [[Faculty of Medicine|Medical School]] by the end of the eighteenth century. Other distinguished US alumni of Edinburgh's medical school include:
+Moultrie was born in South Carolina to a Scottish father, [[John Moultrie (1702-1771)]], himself a graduate of Edinburgh University. Moultrie junior was the first of 117 American students to graduate from Edinburgh's [[Faculty of Medicine|Medical School]] by the end of the eighteenth century. Other distinguished US alumni of Edinburgh's medical school include:
 *[[Samuel Bard (1742-1821)]], founder of New York Medical School