Dr. Hosack, son of Dr. David Hosack and Mary Eddy, his second wife, and grandson of Alexander Hosack and Jane Arden, was born in New York City, April 6, 1805, and died at Newport, Rhode Island, March 2, 1871. Being of delicate health he was prevented from acquiring a college education, but studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1824, and then proceeded to Paris where he studied for three years more. On his return to New York in 1828 he devoted himself especially to surgery and was the first practitioner in New York to administer ether as an anesthetic.
On December 17, 1829, he married Elizabeth Mary Leger, daughter of Thomas Holland Hutchinson of South Carolina, Bishop Hobart performing the ceremony. He invented in 1833 an instrument for rendering the operation for staphylorraphy more complete in its munitiae, was the first to introduce into this country Symes's operation of exsection of the elbow, and devoted much time and study to the various modes of inflicting capital punishment, for the purpose of discovering the most humane method.
For many years he was attending surgeon of the Marine Hospital, and was a principal organizer of Ward's Island Hospital. Among his original papers are Description of an Instrument for tying Deep-seated Arteries and 73 Cases of Lithotomy by a Peculiar Operation unthoiit dividing the Prostate Gland, all Successful. Dr. Hosack published a pamphlet on Atuiesthesia with Cases, being the First Instance of the use of Ether in Neiv York, and also a History of the Case of the Late John Kearney Rodgers, M.D. (N.Y. 1851).
His widow left $70,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine as a memorial of her husband. Dr. Hosack was physician to the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society of London in 1845. He wrote many technical papers on surgery. Dr. Hosack's first wife having died he married secondly Celene B., daughter of John B. Scott. She died April 4, 1876.
According to Alexander Hosack's 1871 obituary in the New York Times, he once asked Burr if he felt any remorse over Hamilton's death. Burr reportedly said that he suffered no remorse, and that Hamilton had brought his death on himself.
On December 17, 1829, he married Elizabeth Mary Leger, daughter of Thomas Holland Hutchinson of South Carolina, Bishop Hobart performing the ceremony. He invented in 1833 an instrument for rendering the operation for staphylorraphy more complete in its munitiae, was the first to introduce into this country Symes's operation of exsection of the elbow, and devoted much time and study to the various modes of inflicting capital punishment, for the purpose of discovering the most humane method.
For many years he was attending surgeon of the Marine Hospital, and was a principal organizer of Ward's Island Hospital. Among his original papers are Description of an Instrument for tying Deep-seated Arteries and 73 Cases of Lithotomy by a Peculiar Operation unthoiit dividing the Prostate Gland, all Successful. Dr. Hosack published a pamphlet on Atuiesthesia with Cases, being the First Instance of the use of Ether in Neiv York, and also a History of the Case of the Late John Kearney Rodgers, M.D. (N.Y. 1851).
His widow left $70,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine as a memorial of her husband. Dr. Hosack was physician to the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society of London in 1845. He wrote many technical papers on surgery. Dr. Hosack's first wife having died he married secondly Celene B., daughter of John B. Scott. She died April 4, 1876.
According to Alexander Hosack's 1871 obituary in the New York Times, he once asked Burr if he felt any remorse over Hamilton's death. Burr reportedly said that he suffered no remorse, and that Hamilton had brought his death on himself.
Dr. Hosack, son of Dr. David Hosack and Mary Eddy, his second wife, and grandson of Alexander Hosack and Jane Arden, was born in New York City, April 6, 1805, and died at Newport, Rhode Island, March 2, 1871. Being of delicate health he was prevented from acquiring a college education, but studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1824, and then proceeded to Paris where he studied for three years more. On his return to New York in 1828 he devoted himself especially to surgery and was the first practitioner in New York to administer ether as an anesthetic.
On December 17, 1829, he married Elizabeth Mary Leger, daughter of Thomas Holland Hutchinson of South Carolina, Bishop Hobart performing the ceremony. He invented in 1833 an instrument for rendering the operation for staphylorraphy more complete in its munitiae, was the first to introduce into this country Symes's operation of exsection of the elbow, and devoted much time and study to the various modes of inflicting capital punishment, for the purpose of discovering the most humane method.
For many years he was attending surgeon of the Marine Hospital, and was a principal organizer of Ward's Island Hospital. Among his original papers are Description of an Instrument for tying Deep-seated Arteries and 73 Cases of Lithotomy by a Peculiar Operation unthoiit dividing the Prostate Gland, all Successful. Dr. Hosack published a pamphlet on Atuiesthesia with Cases, being the First Instance of the use of Ether in Neiv York, and also a History of the Case of the Late John Kearney Rodgers, M.D. (N.Y. 1851).
His widow left $70,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine as a memorial of her husband. Dr. Hosack was physician to the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society of London in 1845. He wrote many technical papers on surgery. Dr. Hosack's first wife having died he married secondly Celene B., daughter of John B. Scott. She died April 4, 1876.
According to Alexander Hosack's 1871 obituary in the New York Times, he once asked Burr if he felt any remorse over Hamilton's death. Burr reportedly said that he suffered no remorse, and that Hamilton had brought his death on himself.
On December 17, 1829, he married Elizabeth Mary Leger, daughter of Thomas Holland Hutchinson of South Carolina, Bishop Hobart performing the ceremony. He invented in 1833 an instrument for rendering the operation for staphylorraphy more complete in its munitiae, was the first to introduce into this country Symes's operation of exsection of the elbow, and devoted much time and study to the various modes of inflicting capital punishment, for the purpose of discovering the most humane method.
For many years he was attending surgeon of the Marine Hospital, and was a principal organizer of Ward's Island Hospital. Among his original papers are Description of an Instrument for tying Deep-seated Arteries and 73 Cases of Lithotomy by a Peculiar Operation unthoiit dividing the Prostate Gland, all Successful. Dr. Hosack published a pamphlet on Atuiesthesia with Cases, being the First Instance of the use of Ether in Neiv York, and also a History of the Case of the Late John Kearney Rodgers, M.D. (N.Y. 1851).
His widow left $70,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine as a memorial of her husband. Dr. Hosack was physician to the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society of London in 1845. He wrote many technical papers on surgery. Dr. Hosack's first wife having died he married secondly Celene B., daughter of John B. Scott. She died April 4, 1876.
According to Alexander Hosack's 1871 obituary in the New York Times, he once asked Burr if he felt any remorse over Hamilton's death. Burr reportedly said that he suffered no remorse, and that Hamilton had brought his death on himself.
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