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Lewis Condict letter to Franklin Bache
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Lewis Condict, New Jersey physician and statesman, was born in Morristown on 3 Mar. 1773. He married Martha Woodhull (d. 1820) in 1798 and Martina Elmendorf in 1824. Condict died of a fractured femur in Morristown on 26 May 1862. Condict received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794; he practiced in Morristown. From 1805 to 1809 and again in 1837 and 1838, he was a member of the New Jersey House of Assembly. From 1811 to 1817 and 1821 to 1833, Condict was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a trustee of the College of New Jersey and president of the Morris County Medical Society in 1816 and the New Jersey Medical Society in 1819. Condict was president of the 1830 and 1840 National Medical Conventions to revise the U.S. Pharmacopoeia.
Condict discusses plans for 1840 National Medical Convention to revise U.S. Pharmacopoeia and encourages participation of apothecaries and pharmaceutical organizations.
Removed from records of Committee of Revision and Publication of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia (4th : 1860 : Washington, D.C.), 1991.
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