William Shippen
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Title
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William Shippen
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Description
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Portrait of American surgeon William Shippen, Junior, M. D.
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Contributor
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Reproduction of portrait by Charles Wilson Peale after Gilbert Stuart
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Creator
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Ethicon Suture Laboratories
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Format
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27.5 x 20.5 cm
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Publisher
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Ethicon Suture Laboratories
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Source
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Ethicon Suture Laboratories, No. 6 in the series, Great American Surgeons.
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Subject
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Shippen, William, Jr., 1736-1808.
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Type
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portrait
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Birth Date
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1736
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Death Date
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1808
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Occupation
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Surgeon.
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Biographical Text
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First Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in America (1765). With Dr. John Morgan, responsible for establishing the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (1765). First teacher of Obstetrics in Ameria and inaugurated the first attempt to establish a lying-in hostpital. Director-General of the Military Hospital and Physician-in-Chief of the American Army (1777-1781).
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Tag
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American surgeons.
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18th-century surgeons.
