Richard S. Dorsey was elected to the Missouri General Assembly in 1828. He served one term as a representative for Perry county. Dorsey was a physician.
Dr. R.S. Dorsey of Perryville (Missouri) has favoured us with an account of a case of dropsy of the abdomen, which was tapped sixty-nine times, discharging at each time about two gallons of water; the patient was tapped for the first time on the 10th of March, 1821. The ascites proceeded from disease of the liver.From a medical publication of 1825 which I found via Google Books, The Medical Recorder of Original Papers and Intelligence in Medicine and Surgery, conducted by Samuel Colhoun, M.D. Volume VIII, 1825, Philadelphia.