American Medical Biographies/Anderson, Winslow
Anderson, Winslow (1860–1917)
Winslow Anderson, surgeon of San Francisco, was born in Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts, in 1860.
He had a collegiate education before graduating from the Medical Department of the University of California in 1884. After graduation he went to London, where he became L. R. C. P. and M. R. C. P., Lond., 1891; M. R. C. S., England, 1891; L. S. A., Lond., 1891. He had been a member of the General Medical Council of Great Britain since 1896, and he was a fellow of the American Medical Association.
Anderson was president and professor of gynecology and abdominal surgery at the College of Physicians in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911; and emeritus professor since that time; founder of and surgeon-in-chief at St. Winifred's Hospital since 1899; surgeon to the Sierra Railway, 1904–7; abdominal surgeon and gynecologist to the city and county hospitals, 1905.
During the years 1893–7 and 1900–03 he was a member of the California State Board of Health, and he was an ex-member of the Board of Medical Examiners of California. He was surgeon-general of the National Board of California, 1900–01 and 1907–1911.
From 1890–1911 he was editor of the Pacific Medical Journal; he wrote on diseases of the lungs for the "20th Century Practice of Medicine."
In 1890 he married Bertha Lillian Collins.
He died in New York City, May 7, 1917, aged fifty-seven years.