History of Friendsville, (Susquehanna County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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A Biography of William H. Carmalt

William H. Carmalt, educator, was born at Friendsville, Pa., Aug. 3, 1836, son of a Quaker. He studied medicine at the Boylston preparatory school, Cambridge, Mass., and at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York, 1857-61; served as interne in St. Luke's hospital, New York, in 1862, and engaged in practice in that city in 1863. He was assistant surgeon and surgeon to the New York eye and ear infirmary; visiting ophthalmic surgeon to the Charity hospital and an assistant commissioner to the New York state agricultural society in 1867 to investigate the dairy cows of the state. In 1870, desiring to make some especial studies in pathological anatomy, he went to Europe, and after four years spent in Vienna, Breslau, Strasburg, and Paris, returned to the United States, and in the winter of 1876 was appointed to teach ophthalmology in the medical department of Yale college. In 1879 he was made professor of ophthalmology and otology, and in 1881 was transferred to the chair of the principles and practice of surgery.

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