Leander Firestone 1878 sketch
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William B. Atkinson, M.D., The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States (Philadelphia, C. Robson, 1878), 454 (Leander Firestone, Wooster, O.); digital images, Hathi Trust, emphasis added as to genealogically significant items.
FIRESTONE, LEANDER, Wooster, O., was born in Wayne co., O., April 11th. 1819. His medical studies were pursued in the med. dep't, Western Reserve coll., and Jefferson med. coll., graduating at the Western Reserve coll. in 1845. He also received the degree of L.L. D. from the univ. of Ohio in 1874. He located himself first in Congress, Wayne co., O., removing to Newburg, in 1853, and to Wooster in 1856. He is a member of the Wayne co. med. soc.; Northwestern med. asso.; and Ohio State med. soc., has been its president; was a member of the Boston gynaecological soc., and is a member of the Am. med. asso. He is the author among other articles of "Fictional Diseases," "Degenerative Metamorphosis of Tissues," "Incompatible Remedies," "Epidemic Constitution of the Atmosphere," "Reciprocal Influences of the Body and Mind;" and "New Method of Treating Rheumatism Based on the Presence of Varied 'Materies Morbi." He held for three years the position of superintendent of the Northern Ohio lunatic asylum, and seventeen years prof. of the medical and surgical diseases of women, and six years prof. of anatomy and physiology, holding both chairs at the present time; and in the univ. of Wooster, O., and in its med. dept., located in Cleveland, O.
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