Harry Mitchell Sherman / [Emmet Lane Rixford].

  • Rixford, Emmet Lane, 1904-
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Harry Mitchell Sherman / [Emmet Lane Rixford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS January, 1935, Vol. 60, 117-119 HARRY MITCHELL SHERMAN EMMET RIXFORD, M.D., F.A.C.S., San Francisco, California Harry Mitchell Sherman, the first specialist in orthopedic surgery on the Pacific Coast, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, November 23, 1854. His paternal ancestor came from England in 1633. On his mother’s side, the family were descendants of an old French Huguenot family, Mauran by name. His preliminary education was in St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hamp¬ shire, and in 1877 he was graduated as Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, Connecticut. His medical degree was from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1880, which college later became the Medical Depart¬ ment of Columbia University. In that same year, Trinity College granted him the degree of Master of Arts. His hospital interneship was in Bellevue, New York, and he served for a time as assistant surgeon at West Point Foundry, New York. In 1881, he became assistant to Dr. Murdock at Cold Spring-on- the-Hudson, and later had some experience as ship surgeon on one of the steamships of the Alexandre Line. In February, 1885, he came to San Francisco and entered practice, soon becoming associated with the late Dr. George Chismore, the eminent urologist. Since he had had special training in orthopedic surgery with Dr. Lewis A. Sayre in Bellevue, he recognized in San Francisco an opportunity to develop that specialty, which until then had been in the hands of general surgeons. In 1886, he became orthopedic surgeon to the Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, organized in 1875 by a group of women headed by Dr. Charlotte Blake Brown, and he soon made that institution the center of orthopedic sur¬ gery on the Pacific Coast. In 1890, he married Matilda Barreda, daughter of Frederick Barreda, Peruvian minister to the United States. Mrs. Sherman died in 1895, leaving one son, Frederick Barreda Sherman. In 1896, Dr. Sherman spent a year in Vienna, studying orthopedics. In 1900, Dr. Sherman married Lucia Hamilton Kittle, daughter of J. G. Kittle, of Ross, California. Of this marriage, there were two daughters, Lucia Kittle and Isabel, who, with the son, Frederick Barreda, and Mrs. Sherman, survive.