Theodore Gaillard Thomas

Theodore Gaillard Thomas

Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1832-1903) was an American gynæcologist, born in Edisto Island, S. C., and educated in Charleston. He studied in Europe, principally in Paris and Dublin, in 1853-55, and began the practice of his profession in New York. He was a lecturer in New York University (1855-63), and professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City (1863-1889, wherehe held the chair of gynæcology when he retired. Thomas was the first to perform and publish an account of vaginal ovariotomy (1870). He wrote "Diseases of Women" (Philadelphia, 1868), which passed through six editions in English, and was translated into French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian.

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* Thomas pessary — A form of uterine pessary :Dorland's - 1938

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