Nathan Bozeman
Nathan Bozeman (March 25, 1825 — February 16, 1905), was a physician and early gynecologist, first in Montgomery, Alabama, and then in New York City. He studied medicine at the University of Louisville, graduating in 1848.[1]: 3
He was collaborator of and then critic of controversial physician J. Marion Sims, whose practice and home in Montgomery he purchased in 1853, when Dr. Sims had to leave Alabama because of his health.[1]: 3–4 Bozeman succeeded Sims as surgeon of the New York Woman's Hospital.
Bozeman conducted gynecological surgeries on slaves in Alabama.[2]
He served as a surgeon for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, and was present at the First Battle of Manassas.[3]
Bozeman and Prof. Gustave Simon had a controversial dispute in the 1870s, about the "wide and indiscriminate" use of Colpocleisis that existed at that time.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bozeman, Nathan (1884). "History of the Clamp Suture of the-late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the.Profession". Gynecological Transactions. 9.
- ^ Taylor, Jamila K. "Structural Racism and Maternal Health Among Black Women".
- ^ a b https://archive.org/details/physiciansandsu00atkigoog/, The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States, 1878, pg380