The New International Encyclopædia/Jackson, Abraham Reeves

JACKSON, Abraham Reeves (1827-92). An American physician, born in Philadelphia. He graduated at the Pennsylvania Medical College in 1848, practiced in Stroudsburg, Pa., and Chicago, Ill.; founded and became surgeon general of the Woman's Hospital of Illinois; was made professor of gynecology in the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1872; later became president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago, and at the time of his death was president of the American Association of Gynecologists. He was an honorary member of several medical societies, and author of numerous papers, among which may be mentioned Removal of Large Urethro-vesical Calculus (1858); Successful Removal of Both Ovaries (1866); Removal of Fibrous Tumor of Uterus (1872).