Joseph Pancoast
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Joseph Pancoast (November 23, 1805- March 6, 1882) was a renown American surgeon. His name is eponymic to the practice of surgery, in general, and plastic surgery, in particular.
Joseph Pancoast was born of Quaker parentage at Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, the son of John (1771-1841) and Lucy (Abbott) Pancoast. He married Rebecca Abbott.
In 1828, Pancoast was awarded a degree in medicine by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1839 to 1841, he was Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College. From 1841 until his resignation in 1874, he was Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the same institution.
Pancoast was responsible for many seminal advancements in surgery which he described, and were depicted graphically, in numerous scholarly articles and books. His greatest work, Treatise on Operative Surgery, was published in 1844. He was also renown for his lectures and clinics in anatomy and surgery.
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Morton, Thomas G., and F. Woodbury (1895), The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1895, Philadelphia: Times Printing House, p. 521
