George Emerson Brewer
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| Born | July 28, 1861 |
| Died | December 24, 1939 (aged 78) |
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| Known for | urologist |
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George Emerson Brewer (July 28, 1861 – December 24, 1939) was an American
urologist known for his contributions to the eponymous Brewer infarcts
.
Biography
George Brewer was born on 28 July 1861 in
Hamilton College in 1881 and studied medicine at the University at Buffalo and the College of Medicine at Harvard, graduating with a M.D. degree in 1885. He worked at the Columbia Hospital for Women and Johns Hopkins Hospital before starting work in New York City in 1887. He also began teaching at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He became attending surgeon at the Roosevelt and Presbyterian Hospitals in New York. In 1893 he married Effie Leighton Brown of Chester, Pennsylvania.[1]
He was the founder, and first president, of the Society of Clinical Surgery, and was president of the American Surgical Association. He was president of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America,LL.D. in 1916, and Columbia University awarded him Sc.D. (hon) in 1929. He became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1920.[1]
In 1917 he, along with 22 other doctors and 65 nurses from the Presbyterian Base Unit of the
First Army.[4]
He retired in 1928, and travelled to
radiotherapy for two years; he deteriorated in December 1939, and died on 24 December 1939 at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York.[1]
References
- ^ PMID 17857680.
- ISBN 978-1-85070-333-4.
- S2CID 40118420.
- ^ George Emerson Brewer Archived 2010-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, Columbia University Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library. Accessed on 26 March 2009.
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