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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... called for consultation in President Garfield's case. His publications include: Aneurism of the Sub Clavian, treated by Galvano Puncture (1869); Esmarch's Bloodless Method (1875); Treatment of Intussusception by Abdominal Method (1877); Question of Trephinery in Injuries of the Head (1883); and Rupture of the Ligamentum Patelle and its Treatment by Operation (1885). SAVORY, SIR WILLIAM SCOVELL (1826-95). An English surgeon; born in London, and educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in the College of Surgeons, and at London University. In the hospital he was surgical and anatomical demonstrator (1849-59), surgeon (1867-91), and governor (1891-95). But his most important post was that of lecturer on surgery, a double chair, which he occupied with a colleague from 1869 to 1879, and alone until 1889, receiving £2,000 a year during the latter decade. In the Royal College of Surgeons he was president from 1885 to 1889. Savory became surgeon extraordinary to the Queen in 1887, and in 1890 a baronet. His declaration against "Listerism" in 1879 ranks him with the conservatives and he was a man of ability rather than brilliancy. He wrote Life and Death (1863). SAYRE, LEWIS ALBERT (1820-1900). American surgeon; born at Bottle Hill (now Madison), N. J., February 29; died in New York, September 21. He was graduated from the Transylvania University in 1839, and three years later from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He was made professor of orthopedic surgery in the medical college of Bellevue Hospital in 1861, and professor emeritus at its consolidation with the New York University in 1898. In 1854 he successfully performed the first operation in the United States for the removal of the head of...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1153297191
- ISBN 13 9781153297196
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages134
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