This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...the degree of M. D. from the Medical Department of Georgetown University, in 1865, and from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1867. He held the position of Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army, and was assigned to the Freedman's Hospital after the close of the war, and for three years was professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the Howard University, Washington. In 1870 he visited Europe, and spent much time in ttie Hospitals of Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He passed his examination before Prof. Carl Braun, in Vienna, and received a diploma for proficiency in obstetric operations, in 1871, since wbich date he has practiced his profession in Washington, making a specialty, of obstetrics and gynecology. He has been connected with many of the city hospitals and dispensaries; was surgeon to the Columbia Hospital for Women, which he reorganized in 1891, and from which he resigned in 1892. He is at present Gynecologist to the Providence Hospital; Consulting Gynecologist to the Emergency Hospital and Central Dispensary; President of the Woman's Dispensary; in charge of his own private Hospital for Gynecological and Abdominal Surgery; and Professor of Gynecology in Medical Department of the University of Georgetown in which he has lectured since 1874. He is a Fellow of the American Gynecological Society, of which he was one of the founders, and was its secretary and editor of its transactions for three years; Fellow of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society; Fellow of the British Gynecological Society; of the Massachusetts Medical Association; of the Virginia Medical Society; American Medical Association; Medical Society, and Medical Association of the District of Columbia; Washington Obstetrical and Gynecolo...
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