Nathaniel Potter, M.D.   Click image to enlarge, or go to U. of Md. lecture cards POTTER, Nathaniel, physician, born in Carolina county, Maryland, in 1770; died in Baltimore, Maryland, 2 January, 1843. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1796, and settled in Baltimore, where he practiced until his death. In 1807 he was associated with Dr. John B. Davidge and others in founding the College of medicine of Maryland, which in 1812 became the medical department of the University of Maryland, and he was its professor of the theory and practice of medicine until his death, and its dean in 1814. Dr. Potter was physician to the Baltimore general dispensary in 1803, and secretary of the medical and chirurgical faculty in 1802-'9. He was a collaborator of the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences," in 1811 edited the " Baltimore Medical and Philosophical Lyceum," a quarterly periodical, and in 1839-'43 was co-editor of the " Maryland Medical and Surgical Journal." Besides numerous medical papers, he issued "Medical Properties and Deleterious Qualities of Arsenic" (Baltimore, 1805) ; "A Memoir on Contagion, more especially as it respects the Yellow Fever" (1818) ; and "On the Locusta Septentrionalis" (1839); and he edited, with notes, critical , rod explanatory, John Armstrong's "Practical Illustrations of the Typhus Fever" (Baltimore, 1821), also, with Samuel Calhoun, two editions of George Gregory's " Elements of Theory and Practice of Medicine" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1826-'9). Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM