Birth: 1793
Death: 1870, Mar. 26
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1793-1870
  Notes: Born at Baltimore, 1793. M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1815; after studying abroad several years, began practice at Baltimore as Ophthalmologist; a Founder of Maryland Academy of Science, 1819; Vaccine Physician, 1821-23; Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Maryland Hospital, 1822; Secretary, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1821-26; Ophthalmic Surgeon, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1823; Professor of Natural History, University of Maryland, 1830; about 1840 retired from practice and spent the rest of his life mostly in Europe; author of “A Treatise on Diseases of the Eye,” 8vo, Baltimore, 1823. (An English edition, 8vo, edited by Richard Welbank, London, 1826, was also published.) This was the first separate treatise on the eye by an American. Died at Dresden, March 26, 1870; unmarried.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 402
• Dates: 1793-1870
  Notes: Biographical sketch
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 795-802
• Dates: 1814-15
  Notes: Served as Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary, 1814-15
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 251
• Dates: 1815-1816
  Notes: Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary
  Source: Baxley, C. Herbert, ed., A History of the Baltimore General Dispensary Baltimore: Baltimore General Dispensary Foundation, Inc.: 110
• Dates: 1819
  Notes: Drs. Ducatel, George Frick, Williamson and Macaulay meet in a room over a stable, in the rear of northwest corner of Lexington and St. Paul Streets and organize a society for the promotion of science.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 684
• Dates: 1819, Oct. 20
  Notes: “Drs. Ducatel, Frick (Geo.), Williamson and Macauley meet in a room over a stable in rear of northwest corner Lexington and St. Paul streets, and organize a Society for Promoting Science.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 29
• Dates: 1821
  Notes: Vaccine physician
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 269
• Dates: 1821/12/12
  Notes: “This special Board of Health appointed Drs. H. Johnson, J.B. Taylor, Geo. Frick, J.D. Readell, John Buckler and Jas. Bain as Vaccine Physicians.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 31
• Dates: 1822
  Notes: Drs. C. Mackenzie, George Frick and Patrick Macaulay deliver clinical lectures at the Maryland Hospital.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 687
• Dates: 1822/04/22
  Notes: “Drs. C. Mackenzie and Geo. Frick deliver Clinical Lectures at the Maryland Hospital; also by Dr. Macauly (Federal Gazette, April 15).”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 31
• Dates: 1824
  Notes: “Dr. Geo. Frick publishes the earliest Treatise on Disease of the Eye in America, and it is still quoted as authority. He established an Eye Dispensary in Baltimore.
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 33
• Dates: 1824
  Notes: Dr. George Frick publishes the first treatise on Diseases of the Eye by an American, and establishes an Eye Dispensary in connection with the Baltimore Dispensary.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 688