Woodward, Joseph Janvier
WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier Woodward, surgeon, born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 30 October, 1833; died near that city, 17
August, 1884. He was graduated at the Philadelphia central high-school in
1850, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in
1853. He practiced his profession in Philadelphia, and also gave private
instruction in the use of the microscope and in pathological histology, and
with Dr. Charles Bishop he conducted a ' quiz" class in connection with the
course of instruction in the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently he
became demonstrator in operative surgery in that place and clinical surgical
assistant, and then took charge of the surgical clinic of the university. At
the beginning of the Civil War he entered the United States army as
assistant surgeon, serving with the 2d United States artillery in the Army
of the Potomac, and then became chief medical officer of the 5th division in
the Department of Northeast Virginia, being present at the first battle of
Bull Run. Later he became medical officer of three light batteries in
General Philip Kearny's division in the Army of the Potomac. In May, 1862,
he was assigned to duty in the surgeon-general's office in Washington, and
charged with the duty of collecting materials for a medical and surgical
history of the war and for a military medical museum. At the close of the
war he received the brevets of captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel, and
on 28 July, 1866, he was commissioned captain and assistant surgeon. He was
made surgeon with the rank of major on 26 June, 1876. Dr. Woodward was
associated in the management of President Garfield's case after he was shot,
and the confinement, anxiety, and labor to which he was subjected during the
president's long illness proved too great for him and hastened the "sickness
that terminated his life. He was president of the American
medical association. He published about 100 single papers, and in book-form
"Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies"
(Philadelphia, 1863) and contributed to "The Medical and Surgical History of
the War of the Rebellion" (2 vols., Washington, 1870-'9).
