The biography of Ephraim McDowell : the father of ovariotomy / by his granddaughter Mary T. Valentine (Mary Young Ridenbaugh).

  • Valentine, M. T. (Mary Thompson)
Date:
1894
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Credit: The biography of Ephraim McDowell : the father of ovariotomy / by his granddaughter Mary T. Valentine (Mary Young Ridenbaugh). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IXTRODUCTIOX. j j disease that has seldom yielded to man's skill (consumption), and in a brief period passed from his earthly labors, leaving unfinished, and to the hands of others, the work in which he was so much interested. Dr. McMurtry, a promising young surgeon at that time, also of Danville, eno-agfed at once in the same laudable undertaking begun by Drs. Jackson and Sayre, and in a few years thereafter the shaft was completed and stood ready to be unveiled; which occasion we will refer to in the closing chapter of this work. Great credit is due Dr. McMurtry for his perseverance and energy in this matter. The late Dr. Jackson, in his remarks relative to Dr. McDowell, seems to have been im- pressed with the idea that McDowell's first conceptions, his first promptings to make the experiment upon Mrs. Crawford, were but the teachings in embryo state of Mr. Bell—brought out and materialized, as it were, by McDowell. With all due deference to the lamented Jack- son, and to his earnest convictions, we must differ with him in his views ; for we are thor- oughly convinced that the idea of ovariotomy originated in the fertile brain of Dr. McDowell, although the words of Mr. Bell made a lasting