Dr. Jared Potter

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Distinguished physician, teacher of medicine and one of the founders of the Connecticut Medical Society. He entered Yale College in 1756 and graduated in 1760. He first practiced medicine in East Haven in 1763, but soon moved to New Haven, then moved to Wallingford in 1773. He was a descendant of John Potter, who signed the plantation covenant of New Haven in 1639. During the revolutionary war he was a regimental surgeon under Col. Wooster.

Dr. Potter was known for his own favorite remedy, Potter's powder. It contained charcoal, camphor, ammonia and chalk and was popular with Connecticut doctors in former days.