{{short description|American physician}}
{{Infobox person | name = Alden March | image = Tribute to the memory of Alden March.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1795|09|20}} | birth_place = [[Sutton, Massachusetts]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1869|06|17|1795|09|20}} | death_place = [[Albany, New York]] | education = [[Brown University School of Medicine]] | spouse = Joanna Perry Armsby (1824) }}
'''Alden March''' (1795–1869) was a nineteenth century American physician, surgeon, educator and medical inventor. March is noted as a president of the [[American Medical Association]] and the co–founder of [[Albany Medical College]].
== Early life == Alden March was born in [[Sutton, Massachusetts]], on September 20, 1795, to Jacob March and Eleanor Moore.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Brown university. [from old catalog]|url=http://archive.org/details/historicalcatalo00brow|title=Historical catalogue of Brown university, Providence, Rhode Island, 1764-1894|last2=Koopman|first2=Harry Lyman|date=1895|publisher=Providence, R.I., Press of P. S. Remington & co.|others=The Library of Congress}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Individual biography|url=https://www.albany.edu/arce/March52.html|access-date=2021-02-18|website=www.albany.edu}}</ref> March studied locally until the age of 19; in 1817, he began working as a teacher in [[Upstate New York]]. At the suggestion of his brother, David March—an army surgeon, March returned to Massachusetts to study medicine.
Upon his return to Massachusetts, March studied under Dr. William Ingalls of Boston.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=KELLY|first=EMERSON CROSBY|title=The Doctors March to Armsby of Albany|date=1956|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44446432|journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine|volume=30|issue=1|pages=32–37|jstor=44446432|pmid=13304509|issn=0007-5140}}</ref> In 1820 he received his MD from the [[Alpert Medical School|Brown University School of Medicine]].<ref name=":0" />
March married Joanna P. Armsby on February 22, 1824
==Career== In 1821, March taught the first anatomy course in the history of New York State. He later founded the Practical School for Anatomy and Surgery in Albany, NY, now known as [[Albany Medical College]], where he held the first chair in surgery.<ref name=":1" />
Among the devices invented by March were novel methods for removing dead bone and [[Kidney stone disease|renal calculi]].
March served as president of the [[American Medical Association]] and the New York State Medical Society.<ref name=":0" />
In 1868, William College conferred on March the degree of [[Legum Doctor|LLD]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tb8_AAAAYAAJ|title=Tribute to the Memory of Alden March, M.D., LL.D.|date=1870|publisher=Printing house of C. Van Benthuysen & sons|language=en}}</ref>
==Legacy==
March died on June 17, 1869, in [[Albany, New York]].
The [[Alden March Bioethics Institute]] at Albany Medical College is named after March.
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