A Practical Treatise On the Surgical Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs, Including Syphilis: Designed As a Manual for Students and Practitioners : With Engravings and Cases
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Lectures Upon Diseases of the Rectum: Delivered at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Session 1869-'70
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Medical Study, A.D. 1869: Introductory Address, at the Opening of the Ninth Regular Annual Session of Bellvue Hospital Medical College, Wednesda
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Contributions to Practical Surgery (Classic Reprint)
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William Holme Van Buren was an American physician, surgeon, and teacher of medicine and surgery.
Background
William Holme Van Buren was born on April 4, 1819, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Abraham Van Beuren a merchant of Philadelphia, and his second wife, Sarah Holme.
He dropped the "e" from the first syllable of his name, although his father used the longer form. His grandfather, Abraham Van Beuren, and his great-grandfather, John Van Beuren, were both physicians, and his great-great-grandfather was Johannes Van Beuren.
Education
Van Buren entered Yale College as a sophomore in the class of 1838 but was required to leave during his junior year because of a student prank. He subsequently entered the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1840.
Yale later recognized his work by giving him honorary degrees. Immediately after his graduation, he entered the army as an assistant surgeon, ranking first in the competitive examination which gave him admission and served in Florida and on the Canadian frontier.
Career
Van Buren resigned from the army in 1845 and settled in New York City, where he soon built up a large practice and became a member of the surgical staff of Bellevue Hospital. From 1851 to 1852, he was a professor of genito-urinary organs and venereal diseases in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York.
From 1852 to 1866, he was a professor of anatomy. He was appointed a professor of surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1866 and retained this position until his death. This hospital was originally the medical department of the New York City almshouse, of which Johannes Van Beuren, was the first director. He was one of the visiting surgeons of the New York Hospital from 1852 to 1865, afterward one of its consulting surgeons, and in 1876 was made the president of its medical board. He was also for many years on the consulting staff of the Bellevue, Women's, Presbyterian, and other hospitals.
In 1859, he was elected vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine. During the Civil War, he was a member of the standing Executive Committee of the United States Sanitary Commission, which received and distributed during the war $5, 000, 000 in money and $15, 000, 000 in supplies. He declined an appointment as surgeon-general of the United States Army.
At the close of the war, he suffered a serious illness from which he finally recovered. He traveled for sometime in Europe, and upon his return gave up most of his visiting practice and devoted himself to consultations, literary work, and to the preparation of his lectures. In collaboration with C. E. Isaacs, he translated Bernard and Huette's Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy (1852) and C. B. Morel's Compendium of Human Histology (1861).
A bibliography of his works is included in the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, volume XV (1894).
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Connections
Van Buren was married on November 8, 1842, to Louisa Dunmore Mott, eldest daughter of the well-known surgeon, Valentine Mott. They had three children, of whom two daughters survived him.