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SWEETSER, William, physician, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 8 September, 1797; died in New York city, 14 October, 1875. He was graduated at Harvard in 1815, received his medical degree there in 1818, and practised in Boston, Burlington, Vermont, and. New York city. From 1825 till 1832 he was professor of medicine in the University of Vermont, and from 1845 till 1861 he held the same chair in Bowdoin. He also lectured in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, and in the medical schools of Castleton, Vermont, and was professor of medicine in Hobart college, Geneva, from 1848 till 1855. Dr. Sweetser published "Dissertation on Cynanche Trachealis or Croup" and "Dissertation on the Functions of the Extreme Capillary Vessels in Health and Disease," to which were awarded the Boylston premiums for 1820 and 1823 (Boston, 18o3); "Dissertation on Intemperance," to which was awarded a premium by the Massachusetts medical society (1829) ; " Treatise on Consumption" (1823-'6) ; "Treatise on Digestion and its Disorders" (1837); "Mental Hygiene" (New York. 1843 ; London, 1844); and "Human Life " (1867).
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