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AGNEW, DAVID HAYES (1818–1892)

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AGNEW, DAVID HAYES (1818–1892)

AGNEW, See also:
DAVID
DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)
DAVID See also:
HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)
HAYES (1818–1892) , See also:

AMERICAN

American surgeon, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Lancaster See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

Pennsylvania, on the 24th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1818. He graduated from the medical See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the university of Pennsylvania in 1838, and a few years later set up in practice at See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia and became a lecturer at the Philadelphia School of See also:

Anatomy. He was appointed surgeon at the Philadelphia See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital in 1854 and was the founder of its pathological museum. For twenty-six years (1863–1889) he was connected with the medical See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of the university of Pennsylvania, being elected See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of operative See also:

surgery in 187o and professor of the principles and practice of surgery in the following See also:

YEAR

year. From 1865 to 1884—except for a brief See also:

INTERVAL

interval —he was a surgeon at the Pennsylvania Hospital. During the American See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War he was consulting surgeon in the Mower See also:

Army Hospital, near Philadelphia, and acquired considerable reputation for his operations in cases of See also:

gun-shot wounds. He attended as operating surgeon when See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM (1831-1881)

Garfield was fatally wounded by the See also:

BULLET (Fr. boulet, diminutive of boule, ball)

bullet of an See also:

ASSASSIN (properly Hashish n, from Hashish, the opiate made from the juice of hemp leaves)

assassin in 1881. He was the author of several See also:

WORKS

works, the most important being The Principles and Practice of Surgery (1878–1883). He died at Philadelphia on the 22nd of See also:

March 1892.

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