William Potts Dewees was an American medical doctor, best known for his work in obstetrics, being described in American Medical Biographies as a "Philadelphian obstetrician [that] was so famous that no parturient woman of the time considered herself safe in other hands."
Works
• An essay on the means of lessening pain, and facilitating certain cases of difficult parturition (1806) • Compendious System of Midwifery (1824) • Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children (1825) • Treatise on the Diseases of Females (1826) • Practice of Medicine (1830) ==Notes==