Alexander Hodgdon Stevens
Alexander Hodgdon Stevens | |
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University of Pennsylvania Medical School | |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Spouses | Mary Jane Bayard (died 1823)Catherine Morris
(m. 1825; died 1838)Phoebe Coles Lloyd (before 1869) |
| Parent(s) | Ebenezer Stevens Lucretia Ledyard Sands Stevens |
| Relatives | John Austin Stevens (brother) John A. Stevens Jr. (nephew) Byam K. Stevens (nephew) |
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Alexander Hodgdon Stevens (September 4, 1789 – March 30, 1869) was an American surgeon who served as the second President of the American Medical Association from 1848 to 1849.[1]
Early life
Stevens was born in
née Ledyard) Sands Stevens.[2] From his father's first marriage, he was a half-sibling to Horatio Gates Stevens and Rebecca Hodgden (née Stevens) Schermerhorn,[3] wife of John Peter Schermerhorn (a brother of Abraham Schermerhorn)[4] Among his full-siblings were Samuel Stevens; William Stevens; Henry Hewgill Stevens; Mary Lucretia (née Stevens) Rhinelander; John Austin Stevens, father of John A. Stevens Jr.; and Byam Kerby Stevens, who married Frances Gallatin (daughter of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Ambassador Albert Gallatin) and was the father of Byam K. Stevens Jr.[5]
He graduated from
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
, and received his M.D. from the latter institution in 1811. His thesis on “The Proximate Causes of Inflammation” was praised by medical men.
Career
After graduating from Medical School, Stevens traveled to
Plymouth, he went to London and received instruction from John Abernethy and Astley Cooper for a year, and then studied for a year longer under Alexis Boyer and Baron Larrey in Paris
.
On his return to the United States, he was appointed a surgeon in the
New York Hospital
in 1818, he introduced the European system of surgical demonstrations and instruction at the bedside. In 1825 he became professor of the principles and practice of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He became professor of clinical surgery in 1837, but in the following year resigned his active duties in this institution and in the college, and thenceforth acted mainly as a consulting surgeon, both in public and private practice. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the New York hospital, and emeritus professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which he was made president in 1841.
He was president of the
LL.D.
He retired from the presidency of the college faculty in 1855.
Personal life
Stevens was married three times:[2] firstly to Mary Jane Bayard (1792–1823); secondly to Catherine Morris (1801–1838), a granddaughter of Lewis Morris, in 1825; and thirdly to Phoebe Coles Lloyd (1818–1907).[7]
Published works
Besides his contributions to medical periodicals, he published:
- Inflammation of the Eye (Philadelphia, 1811)
- Cases of Fungus Haematodes of the Eye (New York, 1818)
- Medical and Surgical Register, consisting chiefly of Cases in the New York Hospital, with John Watts Jr., and Valentine Mott (1818)
- Astley Cooper, First Lines of Surgery, editor (1822)
- Clinical Lecture in Injuries (1837)
- Lectures on Lithotomy (1838)
- Address to Graduates (1847)
- Plea of Humanity in Behalf of Medical Education, an address before the New York state medical association (Albany, 1849).
Notes
- ^ "Full List of Annual Meetings and Presidents". American Medical Association. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Stevens, Eugene Rolaz; Bacon, William Plumb (1914). Erasmus Stevens and his descendants. Tobias A. Wright. p. 16. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
- ^ Moffat, R. Burnham (1904). The Barclays of New York: Who They are and who They are Not,-and Some Other Barclays. R. G. Cooke. p. 142. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
- ISBN 0300105150. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
- ISBN 9781621577645. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
- ISBN 9781171501749. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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