St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-02-01
Edmund Randolph Peaslee, M. D.,
Ii. D.
From the New York Medical Reeordl

From the New York Medical Record
DIR. Edmund Randolph PeasIee. the
distinguished ovariotomist, died in this
city, of pneumonia, Jan. 2lst, and
within one day of completing his sixty
fourth year. During the past fouI weeks
he had been more than ordinarily driven
in his professional labors, and, rs a con-
sequence, his general health began ia
suffer. just preceding the attack OF
pneumonia of which he died. he was
summoned to the central part of the
State to perform an operation. Wish
ing to economic his time in order to
meet ether engagements, he rode by
rail the whole of one night. performed
the operation the following day, and re-
turned the following night. having no
rest for thirty-siX hours. 1t would ap-
pear that this WAS beyond his strength.
and pneumonia seized upon him at a
time when, physically speaking, he was
least prepared to meet it. He was i'll
TOR about Il week, and was not consider
ed i'll positive danger until within "A few
hours of his death, when he quietly and
suddenly sank.
DIR. Peaslee was bonn at Newton. n.
H., on Jan. %, 1914. He was educated
at Dartmouth College, and was gradu-
ated III the same class with Dl. Bartlett.
the present President of that university.
IN the year 1886. He remained at Dart
mouth as tutor until the wear 1899.
when he entered the medical deDart-
ment OF Yale College, from which he
was graduated in 1910. During the fol-
lowing year he began the practice of his
profession at Hanover, n. H., and also
commenced the delivery of series of
lectures on anatomy and physiology at
Dartmouth College. He became a pro-
lessor of those two branches in 1912.
ana continued to hold that chair until
the year 1870. In the year 1913 he WAS
appointed lecturer on anatomy and sur
gerry at Bowdoln College, and was pro-
fessor of these branches of education
during the period from 1915 to 1857
When lie gave up anatomy, but coutin
ued to act as professor of surgery until
1861. DIR. Peaslee was appointed Pro-
lessor of Physiology and General Path
ology, III the year 1851, at the New
York Medical College, and from 1853 to
looo he accepted the Professorship of
obstetrics in the same institution. Tn
the year 1856 the degree of Doctor of
Laws was conferred upon him at Dart-
mOuth-his Alma Mater. He was aIact-
ed Professor of GynecolOgy at DART
mouth College in 1872, and at BELLEVUE
Hospital Medical College in 1874. He
was elected a Trustee of Dartmontb
College in the year 1870. He took ND
ms residence in this city in the wear
1906, and since that time he has 6een
engaged in the active and RESPONSIBLE
duties OF his speciality of diseases of
women in general, but ovariotomv in
particular. III
DIR. Peaslee's communications to med
zeal literature were numerous and
varied. His tastes were, however in
tne direction of surgery, and most of
MS communications in the diffarant
medical Journals of the country were
upon subjects connected with that de-
Partment of the healing art. FINALLY
tne circumstances of his practice deveI
oped Il speciality for him of diseases nf
females, which, with his surgical tastes
naturally led to the higher walks Of
ovariotomy. For the latter onerat;on
ne soon gained Il well-deserved rennta-
non, which, after the publication of his
BOOK upon the subject, became world
VIDE, and made him recognized an