Josiah C. Nott

Josiah Clark Nott ( born March 31, 1804 in Columbia, South Carolina, † March 31, 1873 in Mobile, Alabama) was an American physician and race theorist.

Life

Josiah Nott was born in South Carolina, the son of the politician and judge Abraham Nott. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in medicine in 1827 and spent some time in Paris. He moved to Mobile, Alabama in 1833 and started practicing.

Nott is considered the first who brought the insects with the outbreak of malaria in combination, a disease that is represented in the southern states a huge problem. In 1850 he published the work Yellow Fever Contrasted with Bilious Fever and attacked the existing miasma theory. Nott lost in September 1853 four of his sons by malaria. Nott was by the racial theories Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) influenced. He collected hundreds of different human skulls from around the world to classify them. In his opinion, said a larger skull for a higher intelligence. Moreover, in his opinion, the common races could not have a common origin - this theory came from Morton. George Gliddon (1809-1857) supported him in this thesis. Although both believed that God had created man, but in different races. For the creation story of the Bible, he saw no contradiction. Adam was a white man in his opinion, and God would have created other races. Nott, who kept himself nine slaves, claiming that " the Negro his greatest perfection, ethically and physically achieved by slavery " ( "the negro Achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and therefore greatest longevity, in a state of slavery "). 1856 dedicated Nott Henry Hotze to Arthur de Gobineau's racial theoretical work Essai sur l' des races humaines inégalité (title of the English translation: An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races ) ( 1853-1855 ) to translate.

Charles Darwin refused Nott and Gliddons creationist and polygenistische ( independently unrelated, created breeds) from theory. The man had a common origin and the various races are due to a strain.

During the Civil War he served as a staff physician in the Confederate Army and lost both sons in the war. He died in 1873 and was buried at the Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama.

Works

• Sketch of the Epidemic of Yellow Fever of 1847 in Mobile. In: The Charleston Medical Journal and Review. Vol 3, No 1, 1848 ISSN 1433357-0, pp. 1-21.
• Yellow Fever Contrasted with Bilious Fever. Reasons for Believing It a Disease Sui Generis. Its Mode of Propagation. Remote Cause. Probable Insect or Animalcular Origin. In: The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol 4, 1848, ISSN 0097-1790, pp. 563-601.
• Two Lectures on the Connection Between The Biblical and Physical History of Man. Delivered by Invitation, from the Chair of Political Economy, Etc.. of the Louisiana University in December, 1848. Bartlett & Welford, New York NY, 1849.
• An Essay on the Natural History of Mankind. Viewed in Connection with Negro Slavery. Delivered Before the Southern Rights Association, 14 December 1850. Dade, Thompson, Mobile AL 1851.
• George R. Gliddon: Types of Mankind, or ethnological researches based upon the ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of races and upon Their natural geographical philological and biblical history. Illustrated by Selection from the Papers of Samuel George Morton inedited and by additional Contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, RF Patterson. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia PA, 1854.
• Posts in: Indigenous Races of the Earth, or, New Chapters of ethnological inquiry. Including Monographs on special Department of Philology, Icongraphy, Cranioscopy, Palaeontology, Pathology, Archaeology, Comparative Geography, and Natural History. Contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aitken Meigs. With Communications from Josh. Leidy and L. Agassiz. Presenting fresh Investigations, Documents, and Materials by JC Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia PA 1857.