William Seaman Bainbridge

William Seaman Bainbridge (February 17, 1870 – September 22, 1947) was an American surgeon and gynecologist. He also was a naval physician in the United States Navy and co-founder of the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM) located in Liège.

Bainbridge was born in Providence, Rhode Island as son of the clergyman and scholar William Seaman Bainbridge, and his wife Elizabeth (Seaman) Bainbridge, a missionary and author. Bainbridge primarily visited the grammar school of the Brown University and thenceforward his family moved to Brooklyn, he visited a private school. A part of his childhood he also spent with his parents in Japan.

In his youth he enlisted in the cadet corps of the 13th Regiment of the National Guard of the United States, became Corporal and visited Mohegan Lake Military Academy in Peekskill, New York. In his wish to become a surgeon, he was influenced and supported by Eliza Maria Mosher, who introduced him to Jay Webber Seaver, a pioneer of anthropometry. Bainbridge studied at the Shurtleff College, and finished his studies at the Washington & Jefferson College with a master of science degree. Afterwards he studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, where he graduated as doctor of medicine in 1896. During the Spanish–American War, he served as a volunteer in the VII Army Corps under General Fitzhugh Lee. Afterwards he served at the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital and at the Sloane Hospital for Women. In June 1907 he became doctor of the Western University of Pennsylvania. Also in 1907 he was honorary president of the first international congress for the study of tumors and cancers in Heidelberg. He taught gynaecology at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital and gynaecology and surgery at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, and was consulting surgeon and gynecologist of several national and international hospitals.

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