biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1812–66)
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| biography:
| Surgeon and educator, born in Oneida Co, New York, USA. He helped found Rush Medical College in Chicago (1843), with which he was affiliated until his death. He taught anatomy and surgery and wrote various medical works, including a classic on fractures (1854), and also helped found the first general hospital in Chicago (1847). |
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