11 November 2019

Palms In Medicine


Medicine Transformed: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1800-1930, edited by Deborah Brunton (not a free book):

"...Christoph Palm, who was a barber-surgeon in the first half of the eighteenth century in Schorndorf...passed on the trade to his son Johann Leonhard.  His grandson, Wilhelm Friedrich Palm, set up practice as a municipal surgeon in the imperial city of Ulm in 1797."  "His son, Johannes, worked as an apprentice to his father from 1808 to 1813."


A branch of the Palm family moved to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, the site of the Palm building below:








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