Background
Greensville Dowell was born on September 01, 1822 in Albemarle County, Virginia. He was the son of James and Frances (Dalton) Dowell.
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A Treatise on Hernia: With a New Process for Its Radical Cure, and Original Contributions to Operative Surgery, and New Surgical Instruments (Classic Reprint)
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Greensville Dowell
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Dowell attended the local schools and pursued private study in Albemarle County, Virginia. Then he attended medical lectures at the University of Louisville (1845 - 46) and at Jefferson Medical College, receiving Doctor of Medicine degree in 1847.
Career
Dowell began the practise of his profession at Como, Mississippi. He practised successively at Memphis, Tennessee, and in Gonzales and Brazoria counties, Texas (1853). In 1863 he entered the Confederate army and served first as surgeon of Cook’s Heavy Artillery and later as surgeon-in-chief of the hospital department. After the war he lived at Galveston, Texas, until the end of his life, and in this city acquired a leading professional position. For two years he was professor of anatomy at the Medical Department of Soule University and he became lecturer in surgery when that institution became the Texas Medical College. He was in charge of the Galveston Hospital for many years, which under government contract cared for marine patients. Though remote front the larger medical centers he managed to publish many papers of worth, and in 1869 founded the Galveston Medical Journal. He had charge of the campaign against yellow fever in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1878, being himself immune to the disease from an early attack.
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A Treatise on Hernia: With a New Process for Its Radical Cure, and Original Contributions to Operative Surgery, and New Surgical Instruments (Classic Reprint)
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- Yellow fever and malarial diseases embracing a history of the epidemics of yellow fever in Texas : new views on its diagnosis, treatment, propagation and control
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A Treatise on Hernia: With a New Process for Its Radical Cure, and Original Contributions to Operative Surgery, and New Surgical Instruments (Classic Reprint)
Personality
Dowell was original, bold, and resourceful and with better opportunities he might have been a brilliant surgeon.
He knew seven languages.
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On June 29, 1849 Greensville Dowell married his first wife, Sarah Zelinda, daughter of John H. White. In 1868 he married, as his second wife, Mrs. Laura Baker Hutchinson of Galveston.
