Benjamin Winslow Dudley
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| Born | April 12, 1785 Spotsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died | January 20, 1870 Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky |
| Resting place | Lexington Cemetery |
| Residence | Fairlawn |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Maria Short |
| Children | Charles Wilkins Dudley William Ambrose Dudley Anna Tilford |
| Parent(s) | Ambrose Parson Dudley Ann Parker |
| Relatives | Edward R. Tilford (son-in-law) |
Benjamin Winslow Dudley (1785-1870) was an American surgeon and academic in Kentucky, United States. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania, in London, and in Paris, he performed hundreds of lithotomy, trephinations and treated aneurysms. In his lectures and writing, he stressed the importance of preparation and cleanliness. He served as a Professor of Medicine at Transylvania University from 1817 to 1850, where he taught many future physicians who treated members (and later veterans) of the Confederate States Army.
Benjamin Winslow Dudley was born on April 12, 1785 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. His father was Ambrose Parson Dudley and his mother, the former Ann Parker. By the age of one, in 1786, he moved to Bryan Station, Kentucky, an early fortified settlement near Lexington, with his parents and six siblings. By 1797, they moved to Lexington. One of his brothers, Reverend Thomas Parker Dudley, later served as a Baptist pastor in Georgetown, Kentucky from 1827 to 1880.
Dudley was trained by Dr Frederick Ridgely in Lexington. He attended the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, graduating in 1806. He briefly attended Transylvania University in Lexington.
Dudley took a break from his studies to get on a flatboat along the Mississippi River to buy flour and sell it for profit to Europeans. With that money, he traveled to London, where he continued his medical studies from 1810 to 1814. His professors included John Abernethy and Samuel Cooper, two prominent surgeons. Dudley subsequently joined the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He also studied in Paris, where one of his professors was no other than Baron Dominique Larrey, Emperor Napoleon's personal physician. Dudley moved back to Lexington in 1816.
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