Charles Delucena Meigs was born, in
the Island of St. George, Bermuda, February 19, 1792. He graduated A. B.
at the University of Georgia in 1809; after which in the same year he
commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Thomas Hanson Marshall Fendell,
of Augusta, to whom he was apprenticed for three years, at the
expiration of this time he returned, in 1812, to his home at Athens .In
1815, he commenced the practice of his profession in Georgia.
He removed to Philadelphia and matriculated at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1812, and received the degree ol Doctor of Medicine,
1817.
He came to Philadelphia in the summer
of 1817, and soon became prominent in his profession. In 1818 he
received the honorary degree of M. D. from Princeton College, N. J.; in
1830 he commenced and continued for six years to lecture on Midwifery in
the School of Medicine ; in 1841 he was elected Professor of Obstetrics
and Diseases of Children in the Jefferson Medical College, a position he
held from 1841-61 ; he also delivered various public lectures and
addresses.
He was elected to the Lying-in Department of the Pennsylvania Hospital,
1838; resigned, 1849.
Professor Meigs's literary work was very great. He was one of the
original editors in 1826, of the " North American Medical and Surgical
Journal " ; he translated and published Velpeau's Elementary Treatise on
Midwifery, Translation of Colombat de L'Is6re's Treatise on the Diseases
and Special Hygiene of Females, (1845) ; author of Woman, her Diseases
and Remedies, Observations on Certain Diseases of Children, (1850) ;
Memoir of Dr. Samuel G. Morton, President of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, (1851); of Dr. Daniel Drake, (1853); Treatise on Acute and
Chronic Diseases of the Neck of the Uterus, on Certain Diseases of
Children, etc.
He was connected with a very large number of medical organizations ;
Academy of Natural Sciences, American Philosophical Society, College of
Physicians, American Medical Association, Society of Swedish Physicians,
1854.
On February 25, 1861, he delivered his last lecture at the Jefferson
Medical Col- 1 lege and retired from further active duties of his
profession.
He died June 22, 1869, aged seventy-
seven years.
(The personal edited research
notes of Michael Echols, the source of which may or
may not be completely documented)
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