James Ewing Mears
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James Ewing Mears, also J. Ewing Mears
charter member of the American Surgical Association and became its president in 1894.[9]
Biography
He was born on October 17, 1838, in
Jefferson Medical School.[1] In 1878 he authored a textbook on emergency surgery including amputations. He wrote a paper in 1875 describing an operation whereby the peritoneal cavity was opened to drain pus.[7] In 1910 he wrote a book on the role of reducing yellow fever during the building of the Panama Canal. Mears also lectured Doc Holliday on surgery and anatomy while in Philadelphia,[10] where he lived at 1429 Walnut Street.[11] He died on May 28, 1919.[1]
Publications
- Practical Surgery: Including Surgical Dressings, Bandaging, Ligations and Amputations. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1878.
- Medicine and Surgery in the Orient: Early Days of the American Surgical Association. Philadelphia, 1908.
- The Old and the Beginning of the New in Surgery. Philadelphia, 1909.
- The Problem of Race Betterment. Philadelphia: WM. J. Dornan, 1910.
- The Triumph of American Medicine in the Construction of the Panama Canal. Philadelphia: WM. J. Dornan, 1911.
- The destiny of the American Surgical Association. Philadelphia: WM. J. Dornan, 1917.
External links
- Clínicas Urológicas de Norteamérica 2009. Volumen 36 no 3: Vasectomía y ... By Sandlow, Jay I. p. 287
References
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- PMID 19643231.
Five years later, in 1890, James Ewing Mears also suggested vasectomy for...
- ^ Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte By Werner Gerabek Quote: "Chirurg James Ewing Mears 1884 vor; weitere operative Strategien umfaßten die retro..." p. 1420
- ^ The History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900: Textbooks ... By Ira M. Rutkow p. 267
- ^ Medical discoveries: who and when; a dictionary listing thousands of medical and related scientific discoveries in alphabetical order p. 437
- ^ Canada lancet, Volume 9
- ^ a b The History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900: Periodicals and ... By Ira M. Rutkow p. 37
- ^ St. Louis courier of medicine and collateral sciences, Volume 1 By Medical Journal Association of Missouri
- ^ The History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900: Textbooks ... By Ira M. Rutkow p. 74
- ^ Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait By Karen Holliday Tanner, Robert K. Dearment p. 63
- ^ Journal of the Common Council, of the city of Philadelphia, for ..., Volume 1
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