Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph PRICE
Dr. Joseph Price was a noted gynecologist, and a pioneer of a new surgical procedure to cure apendicitis (on one occasion, he tended to the Shah of Iran!). He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1877, and with his brother Mordecai Price (died 1904, circa), founded and operated the Gynecean Hospital in mid-town Philadelphia. After his death, the hospital was eventually operated by the University of Pensylvania Hospital. The hospital was demolished in 1969 to make way for the Vine Street Expressway. I believe he had a home in town near his hospital, but I do not have the address. This likely was demolished at some point as well. At the end of his life, Dr. Price succommed to some illness and held what amounted to an "estate sale" at the Whitford residence which he presided over for a wheel chair. This must have been hard for him as he must have spent a lot of his time there. One newspaper report mentions his children having been home schooled there. Dr. Price apparently rallied for a short period, and returned to his work at his hospital.
On the night of his death, Dr. Price succumed to excrutiating abdominal pain, and was bed ridden. He got out of his bed in order to perform emergency apendicitis surgery on a little girl, saving her life before retuning to his hospital bed. A few hours later, he died. Dr. Price is buried in (South) Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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