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Theodore Gaillard Thomas (November 21, 1831 – February 28, 1903) was an American gynæcologist, born in
1894 bio with portrait
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, T. Gaillard Writers from New York City Writers from Charleston, South Carolina American obstetricians American medical writers American male non-fiction writers 1831 births 1903 deaths People from Edisto Island, South Carolina
Theodore Gaillard Thomas (November 21, 1831 – February 28, 1903) was an American gynæcologist, born in Edisto Island
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, S. C., and educated in Charleston. He studied in Europe
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, principally in Paris
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and Dublin
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, in 1853-55, and began the practice of his profession in New York
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. He was a lecturer in New York University
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(1855–63), and professor
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in the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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, New York City (1863–1889, where he held the chair
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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
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, and was translated into French
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. He died at Thomasville, Georgia
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in 1903.
Terms
* Thomas pessary — A form of uterinepessary
A pessary is a prosthetic device inserted into the Human vagina, vagina for structural and pharmaceutical purposes. It is most commonly used to treat Stress incontinence, stress urinary incontinence to stop urinary leakage and to treat pelvic org ...
: Dorland's - 1938
See also
Southampton summer colony
The Village Improvement Association of Southampton (VIAS) was founded in 1881 by Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas and a group of men with the goal of promoting and carrying out projects for the beautification and sanitation of the village of Southampton. T ...
References
External links
1894 bio with portrait
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, T. Gaillard Writers from New York City Writers from Charleston, South Carolina American obstetricians American medical writers American male non-fiction writers 1831 births 1903 deaths People from Edisto Island, South Carolina