professor of
Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical Department of Dartmouth College,
and retained the office until his death. Within a year afterwards, in
1843, he was appointed lecturer, and shortly afterwards professor of
Anatomy and Surgery in the Medical School in Maine, connected with
Bowdoin College. He filled those two professorships until 1857, when
he gave up Anatomy, but continued to lecture on Surgery until 1860.
Dr. Peaslee first came to the city of New York in 1851, on receiving
the professorship of Physiology and General Pathology in the New York
Medical College, then just being established.

"This position he held for four years, when he was transferred to the
chair of Obstetrics, and continued to lecture on this branch until the
institution was closed about 1860. He, however, did not settle in New
York, to the practice of his profession, until 1858. After 1860, he
mainly devoted himself to his practice, lecturing little except during
the summer or autumn course in Dartmouth College. But to do justice to
his subject and compress the whole subject into the space of some six
weeks, this being his time of recreation from business, he always
delivered at least two lectures a day and frequently more. In 1870,
he was elected one of the Trustees of his Alma Mater, which had in
1859 conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws. From 1872, he
delivered a course of lectures in the Medical Department on the
Diseases of Women. Two years afterwards, the course on Obstetrics and
the Diseases of Women in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College was
divided, when Dr. Peaslee was offered and accepted the chair of
Gynaecology. At about this date he also occupied for a short time a
professorship in the Albany Medical School. On the reorganization of
the Medical Department of the Woman's Hospital of the State of New
York, in 1872, he was made one of the Attending Surgeons, and held
this position, together with his professorship in the Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, at the time of his death.

"In 1857, he published in Philadelphia, 'Human Histology, in its
Relations to Descriptive Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology,' in which
were given for the first time, by translation, the experiments of
Robin and Verdell on Anatomical Chemistry. But the one great work
which will identify him with his generation is that on 'Ovarian
Tumors, their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, especially by
Ovariotomy,' published in New York, 1872