The New International Encyclopædia/Dickson, Samuel Henry

​DICK′SON, Samuel Henry (1798–1872). An American physician. He was born in Charleston, S. C., graduated at Yale in 1814, and in 1819 received the degree of M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed to the professorship of the institutes and practice of medicine in the medical school of Charleston, S. C., in 1824, was professor of the practice of medicine in the University of New York from 1847 to 1850; in 1858 accepted the chair of the practice of medicine at Jefferson College in Philadelphia. He published many volumes and papers on medical subjects, including Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics (1867).

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