Theophilus Parvin

(Jan. 9, 1829-Jan. 29, 1898). A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with degrees from Indiana University (B.A.) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1852), Parvin practiced medicine in Indianapolis from 1853 to 1883.

Parvin edited the Cincinnati Journal Of Medicine, 1866-1867, the Western Journal Of Medicine, 1868, and the American Practitioner, 1869-1883. He became the first Indiana physician to enter medical journalism when he began publication of the Indiana Journal Of Medicine in 1870. He held the presidencies of the Indiana (1862) and American Medical Associations (1879), and served on the faculties of the Medical College of Ohio, 1864-1869, the University of Louisville, 1869-1876, the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Indianapolis), 1878-1883, and Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia), 1883-1898.

Parvin’s major work, Science And Art Of Obstetrics (1886), although published after he left the state, is often cited as the first medical textbook written by an Indiana physician.

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