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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Robley Dunglison
Born: January 4, 1798
Died: April 1, 1869 (aged 71)
Bio: Robley Dunglison was an English physician who moved to America to join the first faculty of the University of Virginia. He was personal physician to Thomas Jefferson and considered the "Father of American Physiology".
Known for:
- A dictionary of medical science (1842)
- Human Physiology (1832)