J. B. Murphy, Stormy Petrel of Surgery.

Fourth impression. 8vo. [viii], 311 pp. Frontis. portrait, index. Navy cloth. Very good. John Benjamin Murphy, born John Murphy, was an American physician and abdominal surgeon, studied at Rush Medical College, studied in Vienna under Billroth, noted for advocating early surgical intervention in appendicitis appendectomy, and several eponyms: Murphy's button, Murphy drip, Murphy's punch, Murphy's test, and Murphy-Lane bone skid. William J. Mayo described him as "the surgical genius of our generation." Loyal Davis termed this fabled surgeon, "extraordinary" and the 'stormy petrel of American surgery." / "American surgery had not seen, nor will it probably ever see again, a general surgeon of such diverse talents and prodigious productivity." - Leon Morgenstern. / Davis was "president of the American College of Surgeons, long-term editor of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, founding member of the American Board of Surgery, recipient of the Legion of Merit for work as a consultant during World War II, and honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh." / "I heard many stories about Dr. Davis. He was a brilliant surgeon; an author; a tyrant; he kept an enemies list. His former residents recollected that they were on call every night and had to call for his permission to leave the hospital; if he happened to be away the permission had to be granted by the wife or failing that, by the housekeeper. I also heard that many residents, resentful of his tyranny, whenever they had to go out into the community to deliver babies would name them Loyal. It was to be expected that many young men grew up bearing that name." - George Dunea, "Loyal Davis, legendary neurosurgeon (1896-1982)." - Hektoen International Journal. / Nancy Davis Reagan (1921-2016) was his daughter, and wife of President Ronald Reagan. / See: Leon Morgenstern, John Benjamin Murphy (1857-1916): An American Surgical Phenomenon. Surgical Innovation, vol. 13, no. 1, March, 2006, pp. 1-3.

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Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938.

Year: 1938

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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