History of Butler County Alabama United States of America

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Biography of Nathan Bozeman

Nathan Bozeman, physician, was born in Butler county, Ala., March 26, 1825. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville, Ky., 1848, and in 1850 began practice at Montgomery, Ala., some years later becoming a specialist in gyn?cology. He successfully performed many difficult operations never before attempted, and in 1858 made a trip to Europe, where he introduced his methods in many of the prominent hospitals of England, Scotland and France. In 1858 he went to New Orleans, La., where he founded a private hospital, and he devised a useful self-retaining speculum and a portable operating chair. He again went to Europe in 1874 and remained three years, demonstrating to surgeons the advantage of his operations. He was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in 1848 at the University of Louisville; attending surgeon to the Charity hospital at New Orleans in 1861; consulting surgeon to St. Mary's hospital, Hoboken, in 1867, and consulting surgeon to St. Elizabeth hospital, New York city. At the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned a surgeon in the Confederate army, and was a member of the medical board for the examination of surgeons. He was elected to a membership in various medical societies of America, and a fellow of the New York academy of medicine.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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