History of Jessamine County Kentucky United States of America

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The Biography of Virgil Pendleton Gibney

Virgil Pendleton Gibney, surgeon, was born in Jessamine county, Ky., Sept. 29, 1847; son of Robert A. and Amanda (Weagley) Gibney. He was graduated from Kentucky university, Lexington, A.B., 1833, A.M., 1872, and received his M.D. degree from the Bellevue Hospital medical college, New York city, in 1871. He was connected with the Hospital for ruptured and crippled, New York city, as resident junior assistant for a few months of 1871; as house surgeon, 1871-83; as assistant surgeon from January to May, 1884, and as surgeon-in-chief from 1887. He was one of the founders of the New York polyclinic in 1882 and occupied its chair of orthopedic surgery, 1882-95, resigning to accept the first chair of orthopedic surgery in the medical department of Columbia university (College of physicians and surgeons, N.Y.) He became consulting orthopedic surgeon to the Nursery and Child's hospital, New York city, in 1884; was president of the New York orthopedic society, 1885, and first president of the American orthopedic association, 1887. In 1876 he was elected a fellow of the New York academy of medicine and was chairman of the orthopedic section in 1886. He was made a member of several other medical societies, local and national. He published The Hip and its Diseases (1883); besides many contributions to medical periodicals.

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

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