Gunning Samuel Bedford
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Gunning Samuel Bedford was a Roman Catholic physician. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1806 and died in New York in 1870. He graduated in medicine from Rutgers College, New Jersey, and he taught at Charleston, Albany, and New York where he founded the University Medical College, and established the first free obstetrical clinic for the poor in the country. Two of his obstetrical works were adopted as text-books in America, and were translated into German and French.
