William Edward Fitch

William Edward Fitch (May 29, 1867 - September 12, 1949) was an American physician, surgeon and writer.

Fitch was born in Burlington, North Carolina. He was educated at the Union Academy in North Carolina and obtained his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Baltimore). In 1887, he moved to New York City. He founded the Georgia Journal of Medicine and Surgery. He worked as a gynaecologist at the outpatient clinic of Presbyterian Hospital (1907-1916) and physician at Vanderbilt Clinic.

He married Minnie Crump in 1892, they had three children.

Publications

Diagnosis and Treatment of Uterine and Menstrual Disorders (1903) The First Founders in America, With Facts to Prove that Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony Was Not Lost (1913) Some Neglected History of North Carolina (1914) Dietotherapy (Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, 1918) The New Pocket Medical Formulary (1921) Mineral Waters of the United States and American Spas (1927)