Background
William Biddle Atkinson was born on June 21, 1832 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States to Isaac Sleeper Atkinson and Mary Reese Biddle. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Burlington, New Jersey, United States.
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William Biddle Atkinson
Edit ProfileEducation
After graduating from the Philadelphia Central High School, he received his M. D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1853.
Career
During the Civil War he was an acting assistant-surgeon. He was a very successful obstetrician, serving in that capacity on the staff of the Howard Hospital, but his chief claim to distinction is as the author of a large work on American medical biography entitled The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States, the first edition of which appeared in 1878, and the second two years later. This book is of great value as a work of reference.
Atkinson edited or assisted in editing various medical journals. He was a frequent contributor to medical periodicals and wrote two other books, Hints in the Obstetric Proceeding (1875) and Therapeutics of Gynecology and Obstetrics (1880). He also edited the Medical Registry and Directory of Philadelphia. For many years he was secretary of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania and of the American Medical Association.
In 1877 he was elected professor of sanitary science and pediatrics in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia. He was for some years a medical inspector for the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania.
Owing to his connection with the state and national medical societies he had a very large acquaintance with the members of his profession, which with his literary experience peculiarly qualified him as the biographer of American physicians.
Achievements
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One of the major works of his was the work "Physicians and Surgeons of the United States, 1878, " which includes the lives of 1, 873 medical men. This work was the first attempt to cover the whole ground of American medical biography and has been a most useful book of reference to those interested in the lives of the medical fraternity in this country.
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The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States
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Hints in the Obstetric Procedure
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The Therapeutics of Gynecology and Obstetrics
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The Physicains and Surgeons of the United States
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The Address in Obstetrics: Delivered Before the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, May, 1874 (Classic Reprint)
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The Philadelphia Medical Register and Directory, 1884-85
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The Philadelphia Medical Register and Directory
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The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States
Connections
In 1867 he married Miss Jennie R. Patterson who died in 1871, leaving one child, a boy. He afterwards married Miss S. J. Hutchinson and had two children, a son and a daughter.
