Edward Cutbush

American physician

Edward Cutbush
Cutbush - c. 1835
Born	1772 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	July 23, 1843 (aged 71) Geneva, New York
Nationality	American
Education	University of Pennsylvania 1794
Medical career
Profession	Physician and Educator
Field	United States Navy

Edward Cutbush (1772 – July 23, 1843) was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794, where he was resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1790 to 1794.^[1] Cutbush was surgeon general of the Pennsylvania militia during the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion.^[2]

He was an officer and a surgeon in the United States Navy and was commissioned into office in 1799.^[1] Cutbush has been called the father of American naval medicine.^[3] He resigned from the Navy in 1829, after 30 years of service. During 1826, he was a professor of chemistry at Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In 1834, he relocated to Geneva, New York, where he founded Geneva Medical College, currently known as State University of New York Upstate Medical University. During his tenure there, he served as the first dean and professor of chemistry.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "New Jersey History". The New Jersey Historical Society, 2001. Archived from the original on 2010-07-13. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
^ Smith, Edward F. "Medical Practice in the Military". Answers Corporation. Oxford University Press, 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
^ McCallum, Jack Edward (2008). Military medicine: from ancient times to the 21st century. ABC-CLIO, 2008. ISBN 9781851096930. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
^ "Timeline History of SUNY Upstate Medical University". SUNY Upstate Medical Center. Archived from the original on 2010-07-05. Retrieved 2010-06-07.

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Naval Medicine in 1812. Mayer, Nancy
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Naval Register of 1826
Penn's College and University Founders. Scott W. Hawley, 2002
The Philadelphia medical and physical journal. Barton M.D., Benjamin Smith, 1808
In Old Washington (Navy Yards), James Groggon Articles, Evening Star, November 12, 1910
List of Officers, Dates of Commissions, and Length of Service at Sea Communicated to the House of Representatives, January 23, 1814