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Ophthalmic And Otic Contributions
Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, Edward Talbot Ely
G.P. Putnam's, 1880
Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear, Including the Anatomy of the Organ ..
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Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa was an American physician, professor and surgeon and author. His most important publications include: A Vest-Pocket Medical Lexicon (1872); A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Ear (1873), long used as a standard textbook; A Doctor's Suggestion to the Community (1880); Determination of the Necessity for Wearing Glasses (1887) etc
Background
Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa son of Charles Baker Roosa and Amelie Elmer (Foster) of Bethel, New York was of sturdy Colonial descent, his four great-grandfathers (Duryea, Foster, Heard, and Roosa) having served in the Continental Army. All four names appear in the early history of New York State.
Education
As a boy he attended the lower schools in his native village and later the academies of Monticello, New York, and Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
His freshman year at Yale, 1856, was marred by ill health, and he was forced to give up his college course. The following year, however, with characteristic perseverance, he entered the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York (now New York University), from which he was graduated M. D. in 1860.
Career
His first appointment was as assistant house surgeon of the New York Hospital, but he left it shortly, after the outbreak of the Civil War, to become assistant surgeon to the 5th New York Volunteers. He served for three months at this time and reenlisted in 1863 for the last part of the war. Between 1861 and 1863 he studied abroad in the ophthalmological clinics of Berlin and Vienna. In 1863 he was appointed professor of diseases of the eye and ear in the University of the City of New York and at the close of the Civil War assumed his duties, serving in this capacity until 1874, and thereafter until 1882, as professor of ophthalmology. For several years he was also professor of diseases of the eye and ear at the University of Vermont. A man of large vision, Roosa was one of the first to conceive the idea of organizing a medical school for post-graduate work. He was responsible for the founding in 1883 of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, to which, as president, he devoted the last twenty-five years of his life. This institution is his monument. He possessed a strong and inspiring personality; his militant, pioneer spirit was tempered with sympathy and calm judgment. In his determined struggle to make legally equal homeopaths, osteopaths, and others who had passed the State Regents' medical examinations, he displayed courage, enthusiasm, and steadfastness of purpose. His oratorical skill made him a prominent figure in promoting legislation in regard to many other matters affecting the interests of the medical profession, such as the transfer of chronic insane from county asylums to state institutions, measures for the prevention of blindness, and the raising of standards of academic requirements for medical students. He was one of the founders of the American Otological Society, and its president 1874-76; president of the International Otological Congress in 1876 in New York City, of the Medical Society of the State of New York in 1879, of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1893-94; and vice-president of the International Congress of Ophthalmology at Edinburgh in 1894. His most important publications include: A Vest-Pocket Medical Lexicon (1872); A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Ear (1873), long used as a standard textbook; A Doctor's Suggestion to the Community (1880); Determination of the Necessity for Wearing Glasses (1887); The Old Hospital and Other Papers (1889); A Clinical Manual of Diseases of the Eye (1894); Defective Eyesight (1899), a large number of short articles, and two valuable translations: The Diseases of the Ear (1864), from the German of A. F. von Tr"ltsch, and, in collaboration with Charles E. Hackley, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye (1868), from the German of Carl Stellwag von Carion.
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Personality
He possessed a strong and inspiring personality; his militant, pioneer spirit was tempered with sympathy and calm judgment.
Connections
Roosa was twice married, first to Mary Hoyt Blake, who died in 1878, and later, July 8, 1879, to Sarah Elizabeth (Haughwout) Howe, widow of Colonel Francis E. Howe.
There were no children. Roosa died very suddenly and painlessly of heart complications in Bright's disease, having been vigorous and active until almost the very moment of his death.