Dr. Alexander Hamilton

(1712 - 1756)

Dr. Alexander Hamilton received a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1737, writing his thesis on bone disease; two years later, he moved to Annapolis, where he set up a successful practice. Suffering from tuberculosis—“I shall only say that I am not well in health and for that reason chiefly continue still a bachelor”—Hamilton decided to tour the colonies with his slave Dromo, resulting in his well-known travel journal, Itinerareum; they traveled more than sixteen hundred miles in a little over four months.