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Dickson, Samuel Henry

educator, physician, author, was born Sept. 20, 1798, in Charleston, S. C. He was a physician of eminence in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where, from 1858 to 1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical college. He was the author of Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain and Death; On the Correlation of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; and Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics. He died March 31, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. congressman.

DICKSON, WILLIAM, He was representative in congress from Tennessee from 1801 to 1807.