Skene was born in Fyvie, Scotland, United Kingdom on 17 June 1837. At the age of 19, he went to America. He studied medicine at King's College (now the University of Toronto), then at the University of Michigan, and finally at the Long Island College Hospital (now the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center) in Brooklyn graduating in 1863. From July 1863 until June 1864, he was acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army, after which he entered private practice in Brooklyn and advanced to become Professor of Disease of Women at Long Island College Hospital. He was professor of gynaecology in the post-graduate Medical School of New York in 1884, and was president of the American Gynaecological Society.
Skene wrote over 100 medical articles and several textbooks. He contributed many surgical instruments and improved on surgical techniques. He performed the first successful operation of gastro-elytrotomy that is recorded, and also that of craniotomy, using Sims's speculum. Primarily, he is remembered for his description of the Skene's glands at the floor of the urethra. He also described their infection - skenitis.
As a sculptor, Skene created a bust of J. Marion Sims, which is on display in the lobby of the Kings County Medical Society. A bust honoring him is located in Prospect Park Plaza (also known as Grand Army Plaza). This statue was moved in 2011 to accommodate a statue of Abraham Lincoln, a former U.S. president.
Skene died in his summerhouse in the Catskills, New York on July 4, 1900.
Dr. Skene spent some considerable time in Ontario, Canada prior to coming to the U.S.
"Alexander J. C. Skene was born at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, in 1838. He came to Canada at nineteen years of age, and worked for some time in Claremont at his trade as a carpenter. Going to the United States he graduated in medicine in 1863 and served through the war as a surgeon. He became a consulting physician at Long Island Medical College, and acquired a continental reputation as an authority on his specialty of gynaecology. He published a standard work on Diseases of Women in 1883. He died July 4th, 1900." See "Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community", William R. Wood, 1911
Skene wrote over 100 medical articles and several textbooks. He contributed many surgical instruments and improved on surgical techniques. He performed the first successful operation of gastro-elytrotomy that is recorded, and also that of craniotomy, using Sims's speculum. Primarily, he is remembered for his description of the Skene's glands at the floor of the urethra. He also described their infection - skenitis.
As a sculptor, Skene created a bust of J. Marion Sims, which is on display in the lobby of the Kings County Medical Society. A bust honoring him is located in Prospect Park Plaza (also known as Grand Army Plaza). This statue was moved in 2011 to accommodate a statue of Abraham Lincoln, a former U.S. president.
Skene died in his summerhouse in the Catskills, New York on July 4, 1900.
Dr. Skene spent some considerable time in Ontario, Canada prior to coming to the U.S.
"Alexander J. C. Skene was born at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, in 1838. He came to Canada at nineteen years of age, and worked for some time in Claremont at his trade as a carpenter. Going to the United States he graduated in medicine in 1863 and served through the war as a surgeon. He became a consulting physician at Long Island Medical College, and acquired a continental reputation as an authority on his specialty of gynaecology. He published a standard work on Diseases of Women in 1883. He died July 4th, 1900." See "Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community", William R. Wood, 1911
Skene was born in Fyvie, Scotland, United Kingdom on 17 June 1837. At the age of 19, he went to America. He studied medicine at King's College (now the University of Toronto), then at the University of Michigan, and finally at the Long Island College Hospital (now the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center) in Brooklyn graduating in 1863. From July 1863 until June 1864, he was acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army, after which he entered private practice in Brooklyn and advanced to become Professor of Disease of Women at Long Island College Hospital. He was professor of gynaecology in the post-graduate Medical School of New York in 1884, and was president of the American Gynaecological Society.
Skene wrote over 100 medical articles and several textbooks. He contributed many surgical instruments and improved on surgical techniques. He performed the first successful operation of gastro-elytrotomy that is recorded, and also that of craniotomy, using Sims's speculum. Primarily, he is remembered for his description of the Skene's glands at the floor of the urethra. He also described their infection - skenitis.
As a sculptor, Skene created a bust of J. Marion Sims, which is on display in the lobby of the Kings County Medical Society. A bust honoring him is located in Prospect Park Plaza (also known as Grand Army Plaza). This statue was moved in 2011 to accommodate a statue of Abraham Lincoln, a former U.S. president.
Skene died in his summerhouse in the Catskills, New York on July 4, 1900.
Dr. Skene spent some considerable time in Ontario, Canada prior to coming to the U.S.
"Alexander J. C. Skene was born at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, in 1838. He came to Canada at nineteen years of age, and worked for some time in Claremont at his trade as a carpenter. Going to the United States he graduated in medicine in 1863 and served through the war as a surgeon. He became a consulting physician at Long Island Medical College, and acquired a continental reputation as an authority on his specialty of gynaecology. He published a standard work on Diseases of Women in 1883. He died July 4th, 1900." See "Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community", William R. Wood, 1911
Skene wrote over 100 medical articles and several textbooks. He contributed many surgical instruments and improved on surgical techniques. He performed the first successful operation of gastro-elytrotomy that is recorded, and also that of craniotomy, using Sims's speculum. Primarily, he is remembered for his description of the Skene's glands at the floor of the urethra. He also described their infection - skenitis.
As a sculptor, Skene created a bust of J. Marion Sims, which is on display in the lobby of the Kings County Medical Society. A bust honoring him is located in Prospect Park Plaza (also known as Grand Army Plaza). This statue was moved in 2011 to accommodate a statue of Abraham Lincoln, a former U.S. president.
Skene died in his summerhouse in the Catskills, New York on July 4, 1900.
Dr. Skene spent some considerable time in Ontario, Canada prior to coming to the U.S.
"Alexander J. C. Skene was born at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, in 1838. He came to Canada at nineteen years of age, and worked for some time in Claremont at his trade as a carpenter. Going to the United States he graduated in medicine in 1863 and served through the war as a surgeon. He became a consulting physician at Long Island Medical College, and acquired a continental reputation as an authority on his specialty of gynaecology. He published a standard work on Diseases of Women in 1883. He died July 4th, 1900." See "Past Years in Pickering: Sketches of the History of the Community", William R. Wood, 1911
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