James Meschter Adders

Physician; born in Fairvlew Village, Montgomery County, Pa., July 22, 1854; son of Samuel Drescher Anders and Christina (Moschter) Anders. After completing his public school studies he took a theological course in a seminary at Wadsworth, Ohio, a scientific course at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Ph.B. and was graduated from the Medical Department of the same university as M.D. in 1877. He married in Philadelphia, April 30, 1902, Margaret Wunderlich. Dr. Anders has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Philadelphia from 1877. He was visiting physician to the Protestant Episcopal Hospital, 1878-1892; member of the visiting staff of Pennsylvania Hospital from 1889; since 1893, professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, and physician to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital. He is also consulting physician to the Asylum for the Insane at Norristown, Pa., and visiting physician to the Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a life member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, member of the American Medical Association, the Pan-American Medical Congress, American Climatological Association, Philadelphia County Medical Society, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia and various other societies. Dr. Anders is author of a text book. The Principles and Practice of Medicine, which has gone through six editions, and of a work on House Plants as Sanitary Agents. He is a member of the Union League and Medical Clubs of Philadelphia. Address: 1605 Walnut St., Philadelphia.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, p. 13.

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