Vaccination: Its Uses and Alleged Dangers (Classic Reprint)
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Extra-Uterine Pregnancy; Its Causes, Species, Pathological Anatomy, Clinical History, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment
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John Stubbs Parry was an American obstetrician and gynecologist.
Background
John Stubbs Parry was born on January 4, 1843 in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. His parents belonged to the Society of Friends. His father, Seneca Parry, died when John was only six years old, but his mother, Priscilla Walton, continued successfully the management of the farm.
Education
John Stubbs Parry received his primary education in the country schools, then spent a few months at the Gwynedd Boarding School. At seventeen, he commenced the study of medicine in the office of the family doctor, J. M. Deaver, with whom he worked for three years. In 1863, he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania and received his doctorate in medicine two years later.
Career
During the year 1866 John Stubbs held the post of resident physician to the Philadelphia General Hospital. At the completion of this practical internate, he commenced his independent practice. His appointment as district physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary enabled him to make a further study of hospital cases; his first paper, "Vesico-abdominal Fistula, " appeared in the Medical and Surgical Reporter, September 30, 1865. In 1867 he became visiting obstetrician to the Philadelphia Hospital, where he reorganized the obstetrical and gynecological departments, presented a wealth of material in this field at Blockley before medical students, and soon earned a considerable reputation as a clinical lecturer. His second paper, "Observations on Relapsing Fever as It Occurred in Philadelphia in the Winter of 1869 and 1870, " appeared in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, October 1870.
During the next five years he published twenty-eight papers in various medical journals; these were mainly on obstetrics and children's diseases. His contributions on rachitis (e. g. , those in Proceedings of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, 1870, and American Journal of the Medical Sciences, January 1872) were especially important and proved the prevalence of this "disease" in Philadelphia, although it had previously been considered rare in the New World. In 1872 he was chosen one of the physicians for diseases peculiar to women at the new Presbyterian Hospital and in the same year assisted in founding the State Hospital for Women and Infants. In the spring of 1873, he suffered a pulmonary hemorrhage and was compelled to spend the subsequent winters in Florida. Always mentally active, he there became interested in conchology and botany and also collected data on the possibilities of a subtropical health-resort. He returned to his work in Philadelphia in the spring of 1874, and once more in 1875, but broke down again each time.
Despite his failing health, he finished his additions to the second American edition (1875) of William Leishman's System of Midwifery, and his own pioneer work, Extra-Uterine Pregnancy (copyrighted 1875; published 1876). He died on March 11, 1876 at Jacksonville, Florida.
Achievements
John Stubbs Parry was highly respected obstetrician. He was a co-founder of the State Hospital for Women and Infants.