Theodore Gaillard Thomas
Theodore Gaillard Thomas (Nov. 21, 1831 – Feb. 28, 1903) was an American gynæcologist, born in Edisto Island, S. C., and educated in Charleston. He studied in Europe, principally in Paris and Dublin, in 1853-55, and began the practice of his profession in New York. He was a lecturer in New York University (1855–63), and professor in the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City (1863-1889, wherehe held the chair of gynæcology when he retired. Thomas was the first to perform and publish an account of vaginal ovariotomy (1870). He wrote Diseases of Women (Philadelphia, 1868), which passed through six editions in English, and was translated into French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian. He died at Thomasville, Georgia in 1903.[1]
Terms
- Thomas pessary — A form of uterine pessary
- Dorland's - 1938
External links
- 1894 bio with portrait
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ↑ Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L., eds. (1920). "Thomas, Theodore Galliard". American Medical Biographies. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.