William Goodell (October 17, 1829 – October 27, 1894) was an American gynecologist from Philadelphia, best remembered for first describing what is now referred to as Goodell's sign.[1]
Laceration of the Perineum and of the Cervix, a clinical lecture delivered at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University Medical Magazine, University of Pennsylvania (1888)
Introductory, Clinical Gynaecology, Medical and Surgical; for Students and Practitioners (1895)
Clinical Notes on the Extirpation of the Ovaries for Insanity."...deemed a measure of sound policy ....to stamp out insanity by castrating all the insane men and spaying all the insane women," page 295. Year 1882. The American Journal of Insanity, Volume 38