Show Pioneer Surgeons In I n an address before the recent Atlanta j session of or the thc Southern Surgical Congress ress Dr T. T F C C. i Da Daison Davison son jon retiring president paid pahl tribute to 36 southern surgeons fOllS and physicians dans cans who have made malle epochal ion eon to Among those mentioned were Dr Ur Ephraim McDowell of or Ken I Kentucky Kentucky tucky a n country doctor who per pei- performed formed ormed the first successful abdom abdom- abdominal inal operation for the removal of a n tumor of o an ovary Dr Crawford W. W Long of Georgia who first used ether as a surgical and ant Dr John Gorrie Corric of Florida who invented in artificial ice while trying tring to develop a machine for cooling hospital hopital rooms Statues of or these three now no stand in the na national na- na national Hall flail of Panic Fame Dr James Bennet of Virginia per formed the first fj rs t oper operation operation in the United States Slates on his own wife Dr Luther L. L L Hill Mill of or Alabama was the first American surgeon to successfully stitch a stab wound in the heart Dr James Maron Iaron Sims Sinus of Alabama was de de- described described scribed as the time founder of modern and the great pioneer in America in the treatment of wo woo women's women's mens men's diseases Dr Rudolph Hu olph Ma- Ma tas of New Orleans is is credited wilted with man luau first operations es especially es es- especially in iu surgery of the blood vessels Other first operations perform perform- cd ed in the South Sonth according cording a to Dr Davison include those to remove an ovary ovar to open up the to remove part of the spine to tic off of the carotid artery which feeds the brain to remove a rib rih and drain a n lung to correct pala pada palates tes to amputate legs at the hip to correct club feet and amid to discover the thc cause of o yellow fever Truly an impressive record |