Charles Delucena Meigs

Charles Delucena Meigs
Charles Delucena Meigs

Charles Delucena Meigs
Born February 19, 1792
St. George, Bermuda
Died June 22, 1869(1869-06-22) (aged 77)
Philadelphia, USA
Institutions Jefferson Medical College
Known for Obstetrics

Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs (February 19, 1792 - June 22, 1869) was an influential American obstetrician of the nineteenth century who is remembered for his opposition to obstetrical anesthesia and to the idea that physicians' hands could transmit disease to their patients.

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Meigs was born February 19, 1792, in St. George, Bermuda, the son of Josiah Meigs and Clara Benjamin Meigs.[1] He died June 22, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1817. In 1818 he was awarded an honorary degree of M.D. from Princeton University. Meigs specialized in obstetrics and was for a long time the acknowledged leader in this branch of medicine. In 1841, he became professor of obstetrics and diseases of women in the Jefferson Medical College, until his retirement in 1861.[1]

Meigs was a lifelong opponent of obstetric anesthesia. In 1856, he warned against the morally "doubtful nature of any process that the physicians set up to contravene the operations of those natural and physiological forces that the Divinity has ordained us to enjoy or to suffer".[2] He also opposed the idea that doctors could convey childbed fever (a disease) on his hands on the grounds that "Doctors are gentlemen and a gentleman's hands are clean".[3]

A son, Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892), achieved distinction as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War.

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