biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1823–1922)
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| biography:
| Surgeon and public-health pioneer, born in Onondaga Co, New York, USA. On the staff at Bellevue Hospital (1851–1911), he wrote several textbooks, of which his Handbook of Surgical Operations (1862) was most valuable to Civil War surgeons. The Metropolitan Health Law that he drafted for New York City (1866) served to guide sanitation reforms in cities throughout the USA. An extraordinarily active man, he worked for higher standards in everything from vaccinations to nursing education. He was one of the founders as well as first president of the American Public Health Association (1871). |
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