Bi-Centennial History of Albany - History of the County of Albany, N. Y., From 1609 to 1886; With Portraits, Biographies and Illustrations #246706

It is probable that there were other practitioners of medicine during the first hundred years of our history; but these are all that appear, after consider able research, until we pass well on into the eighteenth century. The names of less than forty physicians are known as coming to the entire prov ince of New York in the course of the seventeenth century, and of most of these but little more is known than their names. The various lineage of these here mentioned, coming as they probably did chiefly from Holland, shows how that country was then the asylum for people of all nationalities.