Lectures on Lithotomy, Delivered at the New-York Hospital, December, 1837
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Annual Address Delivered Before the New-York State Medical Society, and Members of the Legislature, at the Capitol, February 6, 1850 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Annual Address Delivered Before the New-York State Medical Society, and Members of the Legislature, at the Capitol, February 6, 1850
What the total amount of unnecessary, (and let me add as I be lieve, increasing) mortality in this State is, we have no precise means, of knowing. In England it is estimated that of deaths, only are from the decay of nature.
Dr. Southwood Smith calculates the annual slaughter in England and Wales from preventive causes of typhus alone, among persons in the vigor of 11s, at double the amount that was suffered by the. Allied armies at the battle of Waterloo. In our Mexican war.
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Annual Address Delivered Before the New-York State Medical Society, and Members of the Legislature, at the Capitol, February 6, 1850 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Annual Address Delivered Before the New-York State Medical Society, and Members of the Legislature, at the Capitol, February 6, 1850
What the total amount of unnecessary, (and let me add as I be lieve, increasing) mortality in this State is, we have no precise means, of knowing. In England it is estimated that of deaths, only are from the decay of nature.
Dr. Southwood Smith calculates the annual slaughter in England and Wales from preventive causes of typhus alone, among persons in the vigor of 11s, at double the amount that was suffered by the. Allied armies at the battle of Waterloo. In our Mexican war.
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Report of the Committee on the Utility of Wet Docks in Connection With Quarantines, and the Propriety of Placing the Entire Establishment Under the ... New York, June 1, 1860 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Report of the Committee on the Utility of Wet Docks in Connection With Quarantines, and the Propriety of Placing the Entire Establishment Under the Jurisdiction of the United States Government: New York, June 1, 1860
On this topic we beg leave to digress, as we consider a dry dock to be a very important appendage to a Quarantine establishment.
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Alexander Hodgdon Stevens was an American surgeon, who served as the second President of the American Medical Association.
Background
Alexander was born on September 4, 1789 in New York City, New York, United States, the third son of Ebenezer and Lucretia (Ledyard) Sands Stevens, and a brother of John Austin Stevens, 1795-1874. His father, a descendant of John Stevens who came from Cornwall, England, to Boston about 1638, was a member of the group who took part in the Boston Tea Party. His mother was a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and a half-sister of William Ledyard.
Education
As a boy he studied at home until the age of twelve, when he entered the school of John Adams, 1772-1863, in Plainfield, Connecticut; he graduated from Yale College in 1807. At eighteen he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Edward Miller, professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (later part of Columbia University), New York. He soon left, however, for the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1811. His thesis, A Dissertation on the Proximate Cause of Inflammation, with an Attempt to Establish a Rational Plan of Cure (1811), was highly commended by Benjamin Rush.
In 1849 he received from the New York State University the degree of LL. D.
Career
After graduation Stevens spent seven months in the surgical service of the New York Hospital.
In 1812, on his way to Europe as a carrier of dispatches, he was captured and imprisoned in England. When he was released, he studied under John Abernethy and Sir Astley Cooper, and in Paris under Alexis Boyer, whose book on surgery he later translated as A Treatise on Surgical Diseases and the Operations Suited to Them (2 vols. , 1815 - 16).
His days in Paris brought him in close touch with such men as Felix Hyppolyte Larrey, Alfred Velpeau, and Guillaume Dupuytren. On his way home he once more became a prisoner of war, but was soon able to return home to act as army surgeon. From 1815 to 1826 he was professor of surgery at Queen's College (later Rutgers), where he was considered an excellent clinical teacher, following the methods of Hermann Boerhaave; in 1826 he became professor of surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. His lectures were clear, comprehensive, familiar in style, quaint in expression, but emphatic and impressive. He began in 1817 his long career as surgeon to the New York Hospital, a post which he filled for the greater part of his life. A trustee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1820-37, he served as president, 1843-55. In the meantime he had built up a large practice which, with his outside work, proved too much for his health, and in 1831 he was forced to go abroad for a rest. On his return he was plunged into the battle against the cholera epidemic of 1832, in which he played a notable part. Three years later, his health failing again, he took Dr. John Watson as a partner to relieve him of part of his practice and moved to Astoria, Long Island.
In 1842, when the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans was organized, he became its member. His interest in medical education led him to institute in 1865 the Stevens Triennial Prize in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, for the best essay on a medical subject. His own writings were of no great value.
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Views
He was a stern, religious man with no sympathy for the ideas of Darwin, Spencer, or Huxley. Conservative, he cast aside the Brunonian theory under which he had been educated. He was a deliberate and cautious surgeon who preferred to treat surgical diseases rather than to resort to the knife. Accurate in diagnosis and prognosis, his therapeutics were rarely unsound, although he was often criticized for his lack of interest and persistence in following out details of protracted cases.
Personality
He was unassuming and courteous, but firm in his decisions.
Connections
He was married three times: in 1813 to Mary Jane Bayard (d. 1817), daughter of John Murray Bayard of Millstone, New Jersey. ; in April 1825 to Catherine Morris, daughter of James Morris of Morrisania, New York; in 1841 to Phoebe Coles Lloyd, daughter of John Nelson Lloyd of Lloyd's Neck, Long Island. He had a son by his first wife, a daughter by his second, and two sons by his third.