John Conrad Otto Contents Biography Works Family Notes References Navigation menuBiographical Memoir, of John C. Otto, M. D., Late Vice President of the College of Physicians, Read Before the College by Appointment, March 4th, 1845 34034484765810067"Otto, John Conrad"
1774 births1844 deaths19th-century American physiciansPhysicians from PhiladelphiaUniversity of Pennsylvania alumniAmerican people of German descent
Woodbridge, New JerseyPhiladelphiaUnited StatesphysicianAmerican Revolutionary WarNew JerseyContinental ArmyPrincetonUniversity of PennsylvaniaBenjamin RushPennsylvania HospitalcholeraPhiladelphiaAmerican Philosophical SocietyGermanyWilliam Tod OttoUnited States Supreme Court
John Conrad Otto
John Conrad Otto (born near Woodbridge, New Jersey, 15 March 1774; died in Philadelphia, 26 June 1844) was a United States physician.[1]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Works
3 Family
4 Notes
5 References
Biography
His father, Bodo Otto, was a physician, and warmly attached to the patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War. He sat in the senate of New Jersey, and served during the war as an officer in the Continental Army. The son graduated from Princeton in 1792, and in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1796. In 1798 he was elected one of the physicians of the Philadelphia Dispensary, and in 1813, on the death of Benjamin Rush, he was chosen to succeed the latter as one of the physicians and clinical lecturer of the Pennsylvania Hospital, which post he held 21 years, and in connection with which he became extensively known throughout the United States.
Otto was physician to the Orphan Asylum for twenty years, and during many years to the Magdalen Asylum. In the cholera epidemic of 1833 he was one of the twelve physicians that were chosen by the public authorities of Philadelphia to adopt sanitary measures and establish and conduct hospitals in the city, and at the organization of the sanitary board he was chosen its president.[1] He was a fellow of the College of Physicians, in which he held the office of censor, and from 1840 until his death that of vice president, and was for many years a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Works
He wrote "An Account of an Hemorrhagic Disposition in certain Families" in the New York Medical Repository (1803), and another paper on the same subject in Coxe's Medical Museum (1805). It is said that these papers are the first that appeared on this subject. He was also the author of other medical papers.
Family
His great grandfather and grandfather were also physicians. His grandfather came to this country from Germany in 1752, settled in Philadelphia, where he engaged in the practice of medicine, and during the winter of 1778 had charge of the hospital of the Continental Army at Valley Forge. His son William Tod Otto was a judge and the eighth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court.
Notes
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References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). 
