Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D., "the father of ovariotomy" : with valuable scientific treatises and interesting monographs on ovariotomy, and eulogistic letters, and addresses by eminent members of the medical profession in Europe and America / by M.T. Valentine.

  • Valentine, M. T. (Mary Thompson)
Date:
1897
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D., "the father of ovariotomy" : with valuable scientific treatises and interesting monographs on ovariotomy, and eulogistic letters, and addresses by eminent members of the medical profession in Europe and America / by M.T. Valentine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    583/594 (page 553)
    PRESENTATION ADDRESS. Remarks made by Prof. Richard O. Cowling, M.D., of Louisville, in Presenting the Door-knocker of Dr. McDowell's House to Dr. Gross. Dr. Gross, the Kentucky State Medical Society thanks you for the beautiful oration you have just delivered on Ephraim McDowell. Surely hereafter, when history shall recall his deeds and dwell upon his memory, it will relate how, when he was fifty years at rest, the great- est of living surgeons in America came upon a pilgrimage of a thousand miles to pronounce at his shrine the noble words you have spoken. The Society does not wish that you should return to your home without some memento of the occasion which brought you here, and which shall tell you also of the admiration, the respect, and the affection it ever bears for you. I have been appointed to deliver to you this simple gift, with the trust and the belief that it will always pleasantly recall this time and be a