John Edwards Holbrook. Caldwell used his theories to defend the institution of slavery in the United States and owned domestic slaves himself. Death Caldwell died on July 9, 1853, Louisville, Kentucky. He was buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. Selected works An attempt to establish the original sameness of three phenomena of fever (1796) A semi-annual oration, on the origin of pestilential diseases (1799) An eulogium to the memory of Dr. Samuel Cooper (1799) Medical & physical memoirs: containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States (1801) An oration on the causes of the difference, in point of frequency and force, between the endemic diseases of the United States of America, and those of the countries of Europe (1802) An eulogium to the memory of Mr. George Lee (1802) An essay on the pestilential or yellow fever: as it prevailed in Philadelphia in the year eighteen hundred and five (1807) An anniversary oration on the subject of quarantines (1807) An eulogium on Caspar Wistar, M.D., professor of anatomy (1818) Outlines of a course of lectures on the institutes of medicine (1823) Elements of phrenology (1824) Introductory address on independence of intellect (1825) Thoughts on febrile miasms (1830) An address on the vice of gambling (1834) Thoughts on Physical Education, being a Discourse delivered to a Convention of Teachers in Lexington, KY. on the 6th and 7th of Nov., 1833 (1834). Thoughts on the spirit of improvement, the selection of its objects, and its proper direction (1835) Phrenology vindicated, and antiphrenology unmasked (1838) Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, M.D (1855) References 1772 births 1853 deaths People from Kentucky Transylvania University faculty Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Louisville faculty Members of the American Antiquarian Society American slave owners American people of Irish descent Burials at Cave Hill Cemetery