R. Stansbury Sutton. 

 1841-1906. 



Dr. Sutton was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1841 and 

 died suddenly at Pittsburg, Pa., April 21, 1906. He studied 

 medicine in Philadelphia and graduated with honor from the 

 University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1865. He soon 

 settled in Pittsburg where he practised his profession with great 

 success up to the day of his death. He had his wish, to die 

 with his harness on, and not to linger long with a distressing 

 illness, a burden to himself and an anxiety to his many friends. 



He was happily married and was a devoted father and a most 

 useful neighbor and friend. Though a successful general sur- 

 geon he was among the first of his confreres to adopt the specialty 

 of gynecology and abdominal surgery. He was actually a 

 pioneer in his work and fitted himself more particularly for its 

 delicate and responsible duties by special studies and training in 

 our large cities and by instruction in the clinics and hospitals 

 abroad, to which he frequently returned for new ideas and a 

 study of their especial technique. 



In 1905, Dr. Sutton was appointed a delegate to the Madrid 

 International Congress of Gynecology. 



In order more successfully to conduct the special work to 

 which he had dedicated his talents, he established, in 1883, one 

 of the first private hospitals in the country, and devoted it to 

 gynecology and abdominal surgery. He named it the Terrace 

 Bank Hospital for Women, and conducted it for twenty years. 

 During the recent Spanish war his ardent patriotism led him to 

 offer his services to the government and he was appointed Chief 

 Surgeon to the Second Brigade, Third Division of the First 

 Army Corps. 



Dr. Sutton was a frequent contributor to the medical journals 

 and societies and was the author of a book on abdominal sur- 

 gery, which was chiefly a history of his own special work. He 

 was twice elected Vice-President of the American Gynecological 



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