W. P. (William Penn) Agnew

William Penn Agnew was a physician and medical author active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is associated with Treatment of Hemorrhoids, and Other Non-Malignant Rectal Diseases and the later edition Diagnosis and Treatment of Hemorrhoids and Other Non-Malignant Rectal Diseases, works that focused on common but often neglected rectal complaints.

Contemporary records tied to his published work show that he practiced as a specialist and wrote in a direct, practical style. Rather than aiming for abstract theory, his books concentrated on diagnosis, treatment, and everyday clinical experience, which helps explain why they continued to circulate in later reprints and digital archives.

Some biographical details remain hard to confirm from the sources located here, so this sketch stays close to what can be supported: Agnew was a doctor, a specialist writer on rectal disease, and an author whose medical handbook survived well beyond his lifetime. He died in 1931.