The New International Encyclopædia/Van Buren, William Holme

VAN BUREN, William Holme (1819-83). An American surgeon, born in Philadelphia. He studied two years in Yale: graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1840: entered the army and served in Florida and on the Canadian frontier; was on the staff of Bellevue Hospital from 1849 till 1852; was professor of anatomy in the Medical College of New York University from 1852 till 1860; and from 1860 till shortly before his death occupied the chair of surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He translated Bernard and Huette's Operative Surgery and Medical Anatomy (1855), and Morel's Compendium of Human Histology (1861). He also published: Contributions to Practical Surgery (1865): Lectures on Diseases of the Rectum (1874); and, with Dr. E. L. Keyes, Text-book on Diseases of the Urino-genital Organs with Syphilis (1874).