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PEPPER, WILLIAM (1843–1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 127 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEPPER, See also:WILLIAM (1843–1898) , See also:American physician, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, on the 21st of See also:August 1843. He was educated at the university of See also:Pennsylvania, graduating from the See also:academic See also:department in 1862 and from the medical department in 1864. In 1868 he became lecturer on morbid See also:anatomy in the same institution, and in 1870 lecturer on clinical See also:medicine. From 1876 to 1887 he was See also:professor of clinical medicine, and in 1887 succeeded Dr See also:Alfred Stille as professor of theory and practice of medicine. He was elected See also:provost of the university in 1881, resigning that position in 1894. For his services as medical director of the Centennial See also:Exhibition in 1876 he was made See also:knight See also:commander of ht See also:Olaf by the See also:king of See also:Sweden. He founded the Philadelphia Medical Times, and was editor of that See also:journal' in 1870-1871. He was known particularly for his contributions on the subject of the theory and practice of medicine, and the See also:System of Medicine which he edited in 1885–1886 became one of the See also:standard textbooks in See also:America. Among his contributions to the medical and scientific See also:journals of the See also:day, were " Trephining in Cerebral Disease " (1871) ; " See also:Local Treatment in Pulmonary Cavities " (1874); " Catarrhal See also:Irrigation " (1881); "See also:Epilepsy " (1883); and " Higher Medical See also:Education: the True See also:Interest of the Public and the Profession. " He died on the 28th of See also:July 1898 at Pleasanton, See also:California.

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