Alexander H. Stevens
| Alexander Hodgdon Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 4, 1789 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | March 30, 1869 (aged 79) New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | American Medical Association President, surgeon |
Alexander Hodgdon Stevens (4 September 1789, New York City - 30 March 1869, New York City) was a United States surgeon. He was the second president of the American Medical Association.
He was a son of New York City merchant Ebenezer Stevens. He graduated from Yale in 1807, studied in the office of Edward Miller, attended medical lectures in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons and at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his M.D. from the latter institution in 1811. His thesis on “The Proximate Causes of Inflammation” was praised by medical men. He took passage for France with the object of pursuing surgical studies, but, on being captured by an English cruiser and taken into Plymouth, he went to London and received instruction from John Abernethy and Astley Cooper for a year, and then studied for a year longer under Alexis Boyer and Baron Larrey in Paris.
On his return to the United States, he was appointed a surgeon in the United States Army. Establishing himself in New York City, he was elected professor of surgery in the New York medical institution in 1814. When appointed surgeon to the New York Hospital in 1818, he introduced the European system of surgical demonstrations and instruction at the bedside. In 1825 he became professor of the principles and practice of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He became professor of clinical surgery in 1837, but in the following year resigned his active duties in this institution and in the college, and thenceforth acted mainly as a consulting surgeon, both in public and private practice. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the New York hospital, and emeritus professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which he was made president in 1841.
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