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PENROSE the University of Pennsylvania in October, 1826, and graduated M. D. March 27, 1828, presenting the thesis "Experimental Researches on the Efficacy and Modus Operandi of Cupping Glasses in Poisoned Wounds." Before taking the University work he had attended some courses by Godman on anatomy and by Keating on chemistry, having early been interested in medicine. In the autumn of 1828 he entered the Almshouse Hospital and remained there a year. In the spring of 1830 he went to Europe, studying medicine in Paris, giving time particularly to diseases of the heart and of the skin. He returned in 1833 and practised in Philadelphia. He was one of the physicians to the Philadelphia Dispensary, and in 1835 became an attending physician to the Almshouse (Blockley) or, Philadelphia Hospital; here he was the colleague of (q. v.), and with him studied the symptoms and pathological anatomy of typhus fever, differentiating it from typhoid fever. He had before collaborated with Gerhard in "Observations on the Cholera of Paris," Philadelphia, 1832. A treatise on diseases of the heart by Bouillaud, with many notes by Pennock, was published in 1837.

In 1833 he married Caroline, daughter of Caspar Wistar Morris; they had one child, Sarah Wistar, who married William H. Morris of Media, Pennsylvania.

Pennock suffered from a progressive paralysis, complicated with tuberculosis, for twenty years; he died April 16, 1867, at Howellville, Pennsylvania. See a full account of his illness and the autopsy in Trans. Coll. Phys., Phila., 1868, n. s., 222–228.



Penrose, Richard Alexander Fullerton (1827–1908)

This Philadelphia obstetrician was the son of Charles Bingham and Valeria Fullerton Biddle Penrose, and was born March 24, 1827. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1846 and took his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1849. For three years before he began to practise in Philadelphia he was resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. In 1854, partly through his efforts, the wards of the Philadelphia Hospital were opened to medical instruction and he was soon after made consulting surgeon there. He was one of the founders of the Children's Hospital and of the Gynecean Hospital, and was elected professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in 1863 in the University of Pennsylvania. He resigned in 1889 with the title of emeritus professor. Dickinson College gave him her LL. D. in 1875.

He retired from practice entirely in 1889 and died in 1908.

Penrose wrote very little. His greatest claim to distinction was his brilliant career as a didactic teacher. Before the days of the obstetric clinic and its inspiration to the teacher, Penrose, with his manikin, Mrs. O'Flaherty, of blessed memory to the classes of a quarter of a century ago, actually gave clinical instruction of the highest order, and enacted a drama of labor and its complications with the accomplishments of the trained actor and skilled orator. His dramatic conversations with his padded manikin, his wit, humor, and profound knowledge of human nature, especially as found in the lying-in chamber, his climaxes in oratory that sent a thrill and carried a pointed lesson in practical obstetrics to his student classes—who among those classes ever could forget them!



Pepper, George (1841–1872)

George Pepper, obstetrician and gynecologist, eldest son of (q. v.), and elder brother, by two years, of  (q. v.), was born in Philadelphia, April 1, 1841. His mother was Sarah, daughter of William Platt. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1858, graduated in July, 1862, and began the study of medicine with his father; but in two months he enlisted as a private in the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Rush's Lancers). His ability soon secured promotion to a lieutenancy; he saw hard fighting and was in the Battle of Fredericksburg. In the spring of 1863 a fall with his horse on the ice dislocated his left clavicle, and being disabled from active service, he was honorably discharged in May, 1863.

He returned to Philadelphia and at once took up his interrupted medical studies, and in October, 1863, entered the University of Pennsylvania as a medical student, graduating in March, 1865, with a thesis on "Typhus Fever." The same month he married Hitty Markoe, daughter of George Mifflin Wharton, noted lawyer of Philadelphia, and a trustee of the University.

George Pepper was physician to the Magdalen Home, and while an assistant physician to the Nurses' Home, gave clinical instruction there on diseases of women; he lectured on