. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. (From a steel engraving by R. W. Dodson of a painting by II. Inman.) Journal. He wrote an extensive treatise upon tumors,and, it is stated, first successfully tapped the S. Physick (1768-1837), a pupil of Hunter, has beenspoken of as the father of American surgery, which hetaught in the University of Pennsylvania. He was atremendous worker, but wrote very little. He employedanimal ligatures made of buckskin. John Syng Dorsey(1783-1818) was a nephew of Physick; taugh
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. (From a steel engraving by R. W. Dodson of a painting by II. Inman.) Journal. He wrote an extensive treatise upon tumors,and, it is stated, first successfully tapped the S. Physick (1768-1837), a pupil of Hunter, has beenspoken of as the father of American surgery, which hetaught in the University of Pennsylvania. He was atremendous worker, but wrote very little. He employedanimal ligatures made of buckskin. John Syng Dorsey(1783-1818) was a nephew of Physick; taught anatomy 292 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. in the University of Pennsylvania ; wrote a treatise on sur-gery, which was the second surgical text-book published inthis country, and was the first in the United States to tiethe external iliac artery. He died at the age of thirty-five,at a time when he was giving promise of exceeding emi-nence. Nathan Smith taught in Dartmouth, Yale, andBowdoin Colleges, and was considered the best man of hisday in New England. * Ephraim McDowell (1772-1830) lived in Danville, Fig. 50.—Ephraim McDowell, To him is justly due the great honor of having performedthe first rational and deliberate ovariotomy, which he didin 1809, his patient living for thirty-two years. The oper-ation was performed without an anaesthetic, and consideringthe circumstances under which it was carried out has sheda lustre upon his name and brain which nothing can everdim. By this performance he became practically thefather of modern abdominal surgery, and to him Americans NOTABLE AMERICAN SURGEONS. 293 and Europeans alike are delighted to render all the honorthat is his due. Perhaps the most eminent surgeon of the country wasValentine Mott (1785-18G5), a pupil of Cooper and Bell,who taught in the College of Physicians and Surgeons,New York, until 1840, and in the University MedicalSchool until 1860. He was a man of exceeding boldnessand brilliancy, whose operations we
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