Cornelius Rea Agnew | |
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| Born | August 8, 1830  New York City |
| Died | April 18, 1888 (aged 57) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation | Surgeon |
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Cornelius Rea Agnew (August 8, 1830 – April 18, 1888) was an American surgeon. [1]
Agnew was born in New York City, the son of William Agnew and Elizabeth Thompson Agnew; his ancestors, Huguenot, Irish and Scotch, came to America from time to time during the 18th century. [1] He entered the Columbia College in 1845 and graduated from there in 1849 with the degree of A.B. [1] He then received the degree of M.D. from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1852. [2] In 1856, he married Mary Nash, daughter of Lora Nash, a New York merchant. [1]
Agnew began to practice medicine in 1854 [1] and became house surgeon, and later curator, at the New York Hospital. [2] He went to Europe for special study in his profession, and on his return was appointed surgeon to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, [2] from 1855 through 1864.
He was appointed surgeon-general of the State of New York in 1858; [2] during the American Civil War, he was medical director of the New York Volunteer Hospital, [1] treating wounded soldiers from the Union Army. He was prominent in the United States Sanitary Commission, [2] which administered supplies and medical assistance to the field armies.
After the war, he assisted in establishing the Columbia School of Mines in 1864. [1] In the same year, he was also one of the founders of the New York Ophthalmological Society. [1] He was instrumental, in 1868, in the founding of an ophthalmic clinic in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which he was in 1869 appointed professor and lecturer. [2] He then founded the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital in 1868 and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital in 1869. [2]
He served as a public school trustee and was president of the board, he was also one of the managers of the New York State Hospital for the Insane at Poughkeepsie, New York. [2] The New York County Medical Society elected him president in 1872. [2]
In 1869 he was elected to the clinical professorship of diseases of the eye and ear in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a position which he held till his death on April 18, 1888, in New York City. [1]
A part of the success of the United States Sanitary Commission must be attributed to Dr. Agnew's labors. [1] He prepared many papers relating to the eye and ear, and published in the current medical journals, also, a Series of American Clinical Lectures (1875), edited by E. C. Sequin (M.D.), besides numerous brief monographs. [2]
Agnew's papers were donated to the National Library of Medicine in the late 1980s. [3]
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