GILES
M. PEASE, M. D.
Giles
M. Pease, M. D., whose office is at No. 125 Turk street, San Francisco, has
been a resident of California for the past eighteen years, and has been engaged
in the practice of his profession since early in 1861. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in
1839, receiving his early education in the public schools of that city,
attending for two years the Boston high school. He then commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of
his father, Dr. Giles Pease, who was then practicing in Boston. Later he entered the medical department of
Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1863. Meanwhile he had passed the necessary examinations in 1861, and
had been appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon of the United States Navy, in which
he remained a little over a year, most of the time being attached to the United
States steamship Bohio, on the west blockading squadron. In the winter of 1862-3 Mr. Pease resigned from the navy and returned to Boston,
where he passed his examinations at the Harvard Medical College, receiving his
degree as Doctor of Medicine. He was
soon appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry
Volunteers, joining his regiment at Morris Island, South Carolina. He took part in the siege of
Charleston. His health failing he
resigned from the service and returned to Boston, where he remained, engaged in
private practice until 1873. Meanwhile
he had become interested in and studied the homeopathic system of practice.
Mr.
Pease came to California in 1873, and since that time has been in continuous
practice in San Francisco. He was one
year Professor of Gynecology at the Hahnemann Homeopathic College of San
Francisco, and for about eight years a member and Secretary of the State Board
of Medical Examiners.
Transcribed by
Donna L. Becker
Source: "The
Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 560-561, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2004 Donna L. Becker.