biography
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| lived:
| (1785–1865)
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| biography:
| Surgeon, born in Glen Cove, New York, USA. After taking his medical degree from Columbia University and studying surgery in Britain, he opened a practice in New York City (1809) and was associated with various colleges. Rapid, skillful, and ambidextrous, he pioneered various circulatory surgeries and procedures, and he became known internationally as a bold, innovative surgeon. He did not write any major works, but bequeathed his substantial library and a surgical and pathological museum to the New York medical profession. |
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