History of Eaton, (Preble County) Ohio United States of America

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The Biography of William Heath Byford

William Heath Byford, physician, was born in Eaton, Preble county, Ohio, March 20, 1817. He was graduated at the Ohio medical school in 1844, and practised at Mt. Vernon, Ind. In 1852 he became professor of anatomy, and in 1854 professor of theory and practice in the Evansville medical college. In 1857 he was called to the chair of obstetrics in the Rush medical college, Chicago, and in 1859 to the chair of obstetrics in the Chicago medical college. He returned in 1879 to the Rush medical college to fill the chair of gyn?cology, which had been created for him. He was one of the founders of the Woman's medical college of Chicago, and for many years its president, and its professor of obstetrics and gyn?cology. His published works are: Chronic Inflammation of the Cervix (Philadelphia 1864): Treatise on the Chronic Inflammation and Displacement of the Uterus (1864, new ed., 1871); Practice of Medicine and Surgery applied to Diseases of Women (1865; new ed., revised, 187l); Philosophy of Domestic Life (1868); and a Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Obstetrics (1870). He died in Chicago, Ill., May, 1890.)

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