Memoir of Edmund Randolph Peaslee : read before the New Hampshire Medical Society, at its annual convention held in Concord, June 18 and 19, 1878 / by Horace T. Hanks.

  • Hanks, Horace T.
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1878
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Credit: Memoir of Edmund Randolph Peaslee : read before the New Hampshire Medical Society, at its annual convention held in Concord, June 18 and 19, 1878 / by Horace T. Hanks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    IO New York Medical College was published ; and in the New Tork Journal of Medicine, a case of amputation at the shoul der joint. In 1854, a monograph on the Pathology, etc., of Infantile Laryngo Tracheal Croup appeared in the American Medical Monthly, and also a monograph on Foetal Circu- lation, which at that time was quite a new research. In 1855, Prof. Peaslee reported a case of Removal of the entire uterus, with subsequent death. In 1855, Peaslee's Human Histology was published, a volume of 616 pages, and was the first system- atic work of the kind in the English language, and embraced, be- sides his own ideas, compilations from foreign authors. In i860, he published papers on Uterine Displacements, Ovarian Tu- mors, and their treatment other than by ovariotomy. In 1864, before the New York Academy of Medicine, he read a paper on Ovariotomy. The following year he published the statistics of 150 cases of ovariotomy. In the same year he read a paper before the New York State Medical Society, entitled Retro- flexions of the Unimpregnated Uterus. In 1S67, an article on Ovariotomy : when and how to perform it, was published in the New Tork Medical Gazette. In June, 1870, a His- tory of Ovariotomy, and A Sketch of the Life of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, were read before the Medical Journal Association. In July, 1870, appeared an article on Intra-uterine Medica- tion. In August, 1870, in the American Journal of Obstet- rics, was published Intra-Peritoneal Injections. In 1872, he published the crowning work of his life,— Ova- rian Tumors and Ovariotomy, already mentioned. In Jan- uary, 1876, reports of very excellent lectures on Congestions and Inflammations of the Uterus, before the class at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, were published in the New Tork Medical Record. June 1, 1876, he read before the New York Academy of Medicine an able paper on Incision and Dis- cision of the Cervix Uteri. Prof Peaslee was a diligent student up to the last days of his life. He studied German, Spanish, and Italian during his ac- tive practice in New York, and was able to read medical works in these languages. The French language he had acquired early in life, and he was able to converse fluently in it. His breadth of culture extended beyond the confines of his profes-