Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Henry PANCOAST
PANCOAST, William Henry, surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 16, 1835; son of Dr. Joseph and Rebecca (Abbott) Pancoast . He was graduated at Haverford college, A.B., 1853; at Jefferson Medical college, M.D., 1856; studied in the hospitals of London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, 1856-59, and while in Paris was a pupil and assistant of the discoverer of the operation of lithotrity. He began practice in Philadelphia in 1859 and soon became prominent as a hospital and private surgeon. In 1861 he entered the army as surgeon-chief and second officer in charge of the military hospital in Philadelphia. He was demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson Medical college, 1862-74; adjunct professor of anatomy during his father's absence in Europe, 1867-68, and 1873-74, and professor of anatomy, 1874-97. He was also first president of and professor in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, 1886-96. He was married first, Nov. 13, 1873, to Mary Anna Gertrude Lewis; and secondly, to Matilda Robb. He secured the bodies of the Siamese twins in 1874, and conducted the autopsy under the auspices of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia, proving that the band could not have been safely cut except in childhood. He was a member of the American Philosophical society; the Academy of Natural Sciences; fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia; president of the Philadelphia County Medical society; vice-president of the Pennsylvania State Medical society; a member of the American Medical association, of the International Medical congress, 1876; corresponding member of the Société Clinique de Paris; first president of the Red Cross Society in Pennsylvania, and of a section of the Pan-American [p.185] Medical congress. He received from Haverford the honorary degree of A.M., 1876. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 5, 1897.
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