Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph PANCOAST
PANCOAST, Joseph, surgeon, was born in Burlington, N.J., Nov. 23, 1805; son of John and Anne(Abbott) Pancoast. His first maternal ancestor in America emigrated from England to Pennsylvania with William Penn. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1828, and settled in practice in Philadelphia, Pa., where he married, in 1829, Rebecca, daughter of Timothy Abbott of that city. He taught classes in practical anatomy and surgery, was one of the physicians to the Blockley hospital in 1834, head physician of the Children's hospital for several years, and one of its visiting surgeons, 1838-45. He was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college, 1838-47, succeeding Dr. George McClellan, and was transferred to the chair of anatomy, serving 1847-74, when he resigned and was succeeded by his son, Dr. William H. Pancoast. He was surgeon to the Pennsylvania hospital, 1854-64. He performed many novel and skilful operations which are recorded in medical works. He was a member of the American Philosophical society; the College of Pharmacy; The Philadelphia County Medical society; the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and other scientific institutions. He contributed to the American Journal of the Medical Science, The American Medical Intelligencer and the Medical Examiner; translated J. Frederick Lobstein's Treatise on the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Human Sympathetic Nerve from the Latin (1831); edited
Manse on the Great Sympathetic Nerve (1841); Manse on the Cerebro-Spinal Axis of Man (1841); and Quain's Anatomical Plates (1852); and is the author of: Treatise on Operative Surgery, with Descriptions of all the New Operations (1844, revised edition, 1852); A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students, based on the work of Casper Wistar (1844), and several essays. He died in
Philadelphia, Pa., March 7, 1882.
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