American Medical Biographies/Bodenhamer, William
Bodenhamer, William (1808–1905)
William Bodenhamer, specialist and author in rectal diseases, was born in East Berlin, Pennsylvania, in the year 1808. He graduated in medicine in the now defunct Worthington Medical College of the Ohio University in 1839. He practised in Paris, and in Louisville, Kentucky, and in New Orleans, and settled in New York in 1859. He wrote "A Practical Treatise on the Aetiology, Pathology and Treatment of the Congenital Malformations of the Rectum and Anus," 368 pp., N. Y. 1860, for the first time gathering into one all the scattered memoranda from every nation, with especial reference to the efforts to give relief by operation. This remarkable treatise is illustrated by 16 lithographic plates, and reports upwards of three hundred cases and will without doubt always remain the foundation stone in the surgery of these distressing abnormalities. Bodenhamer died March 31, 1905, at his home in New Rochelle, N. Y.