Paine, Martyn
physician, author, was born July 8, 1794, in Williamstown, Vt. He was a physician of New York city; and the author of Medical and Physiological Commentaries; Institutes of Medicine; The Cholera Asphyxia of New York (1832); Physiology of Digestion; Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as Distinguished from Materialism; Review of Theoretical Geology; The Philosophy of Vitality; Defense of the Medical Profession of the United States; A Therapeutical Arrangement of Materia Medica; and Organic Life Distinguished from Chemical and Physical Doctrines. He died Nov. 10, 1877, in New York city.