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WATTS, Robert, educator, born in Fordham, New York, in 1812; died in Paris, France, 8 September, 1867. He was graduated at Columbia in 1831 and at the College of physicians and surgeons in 1835. While an undergraduate he was appointed lecturer on anatomy in Vermont medical college, and in 1838 he was professor of anatomy there and at the Berkshire medical institution at Pittsfield, Massachusetts From 1839 till his death he was professor of anatomy in the College of physicians and surgeons, New York city, and from 1859 he was one of the attending physicians of the Nursery and child's hospital. During all this period he was extensively engaged in private practice. He was one of the founders of the New York pathological society and for several years its presiding officer. Dr. Watts contributed many articles to medical periodicals and revised and edited, with notes, several manuals of anatomy.
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