Benjamin Winslow Dudley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benjamin Winslow Dudley

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1785

Place of Birth: Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1870

Profession: surgeon, medical writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.