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Principles of Rodent Surgery for the New Surgeon
Published on: January 6, 2011
George Ryerson Fowler: Brooklyn's surgical pioneer: a biographical sketch based on historical documents
Mary E Kelleher1, Kenneth G Swan, Denis P Kelleher
1Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, USA. mary.kelleher@nyumc.org
Abstract:
The Fowler position, widely used in surgery and obstetrics for patient placement, marks a fraction of 19th-century Brooklyn surgeon George Ryerson Fowler's prodigious accomplishments. Fowler was a pioneer who refined the appendectomy, performed the first lung decortication, advocated for sterile techniques, introduced first aid in the US Army, and helped start a precursor to Annals of Surgery. His publications include the first US textbook on appendicitis--ironically, the disease that killed him.
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