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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Holme Van Buren

1819–83

American surgeon. MD, Pennsylvania, 1840. Army surgeon, 1840–5. Practised in New York from 1845. Professor of anatomy, University of the City of New York, 1852–66. Professor, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1866. Author of Lectures on the diseases of the rectum (1870).

Source

American medical biography

Bibliography

American medical biography: Dictionary of American medical biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times. By Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage. New York and London: D. Appleton and Company. 1928.

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