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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    have appeared to the Hsteners would burst into tears. He was an experienced, bold operator, and understood the anatomy of the human body thoroughly. He excelled all other surgeons in his day, in easy flow of language and animated thought. His power of description was so great that even to the unprofessional person the reading of his Anatomy was pleasing and without fatigue ; and his surgery only added interest and recrea- tion. He gave himself great distinction by his studies in pathology of the arteries and by his ingenious treatment of arterial injuries. He devised many new and critical operations, and took a keen interest in removing the superflui- ties of the old surgery, not at all times sparing the new. Bound in the volume with the Life of Dr. McDowell is a complete copy of the memorial oration delivered by the late S. D. Gross, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L. Oxon., at Danville, Ken- tucky, on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument erected to the memory of Dr. Mc- Dowell, by the Kentucky State Medical Society, May 14, 1879, together with the proceedings of