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Joseph Pancoast was born on November 23, 1805 in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of John and Ann (Abbott) Pancoast. His family was English, and had come to America with William Penn.
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Joseph Pancoast was born on November 23, 1805 in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of John and Ann (Abbott) Pancoast. His family was English, and had come to America with William Penn.
Joseph Pancoast received his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1828.
About 1828 Pancoast began to practise medicine in Philadelphia, specializing in surgery. In 1831 he was appointed to conduct the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, founded in 1820 by Doctor Jason Valentine O'Brien Lawrence. In 1838 he retired from the School of Anatomy and succeeded Dr. George McClellan in the chair of surgery in the Jefferson Medical College.
In 1835 he was elected physician to the Philadelphia Hospital (Blockley) and in 1838 was made visiting surgeon to the same institution, retaining the connection until 1845. In 1838, also, he retired from the School of Anatomy and succeeded Doctor George McClellan in the chair of surgery in the Jefferson Medical College. In 1841 he was transferred from the chair of surgery to that of anatomy, which he held until 1874, when he resigned. Thus for thirty-six years he filled one or another of the most important chairs in the Jefferson Medical College. In 1854 he was elected to the staff of the Pennsylvania Hospital, resigning in 1864.
His literary work, which was rather voluminous, began with a translation of J. F. Lobstein's De nervi sympathetici humane fabrica et morbus (Paris, 1823) published as Treatise on the Structure, Function and Diseases of the Sympathetic Nerve (1831). This was followed by his edition of P. J. Manec's Great Sympathetic Nerves and Manec's Cerebro-Spinal Axis of Man. He issued three editions (1839, 1843, and 1846) of Caspar Wistar and William Horner's System of Anatomy and contributed numerous miscellaneous papers to medical journals. His greatest achievement, however, was his own Treatise on Operative Surgery, of which the first edition appeared in 1844 and the third and last in 1852. He died in Philadelphia on March 7, 1882.
Among Joseph Pancoast's principal achievements in surgery were an operation for the remediation of exstrophy of the bladder by plastic abdominal flaps with which to replace the missing anterior vesical wall; an operation for soft and mixed cataracts by passing a hook through the front part of the vitreous humor between the margin of the dilated iris and lens without touching the ciliary body, the soft part of the lens being deeply cut and the hardened nucleus withdrawn by a horizontal displacement along the line of entrance of the needle and the fragment being left in the outer border of the vitreous; an operation for empyema in which a semicircular flap of skin over the ribs was raised, the pleura punctured near the base of the flap, a short catheter introduced, fastened with a strong string so as to make a fistula, and then the flap turned down to serve as a valve after the removal of the catheter; an operation for the correction of occlusion of the nasal duct by puncturing the lachrymal sac and introducing a tiny hollow ivory tube that had been previously decalcified, leaving the tube in situ to become absorbed; a strabismus operation for the relief of bad cases in which the tendon of the oblique muscle, being surrounded by rigid connective tissue, must be drawn out with a hook before being cut.
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On July 2, 1829, Joseph Pancoast married Rebecca, daughter of Timothy Abbott. His son, William Henry Pancoast, was also a physician.
