The New International Encyclopædia/Fisher, George Jackson

FISHER, George Jackson (1825-93). An American physician, born at North Castle, N. Y., and educated at the New York University Medical School. He was medical attendant at the State prison, Sing Sing, from 1853 to 1854, United States examining physician of the Seventh Brigade, New York State National Guard, from 1853 to 1873, and president of the New York State Medical Society in 1874. He succeeded Dr. Samuel D. Gross as the contributor of a “History of Surgery” to the International Encyclopædia of Surgery, and published: On the Animal Substances Employed as Medicines by the Ancients (1862); Diploteratology: an Essay on Compound Human Monsters (1866); Are Malformations or Monstrosities of the Fœtus in Utero Ever Produced by the Power of Maternal Emotion? (1870); A Brief History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood (1877); Teratology (1875); Sketches of Some of the Old Masters of Anatomy, Medicine, and Surgery (1880-83).