Record #:

22460

Author(s):

Royster, Hubert A.

Abstract:

Edmund Strudwick of Orange County, North Carolina was born in 1802, Strudwick studied medicine under Dr. James Webb and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1824. Strudwick spent the rest of his life, until 1879, practicing medicine in North Carolina as an expert on lithology and general surgery. His most renowned cases involved the removal from a woman of an abdominal tumor which weighed 36 pounds.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 15 Issue 1, July 1915, p2-11

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Medical History; Strudwick, Edmund (1802-1879)