James Ewing Mears
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| Born | October 17, 1838 |
| Died | May 28, 1919 (aged 80) |
| Occupation(s) | Surgeon, Researcher, Author |
James Ewing Mears, also J. Ewing Mears M.D., LL.D. (October 17, 1838 – May 28, 1919) was a surgeon and author.[1][2] He was a pioneer in jaw and mouth surgeries.[1][3] He was the first to propose the use of Gasserian ganglionectomy for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.[4][5] He was the first surgeon in the United States to successfully perform a subcutaneous osteotomy for the relief of old dislocations.[6] He was the first to open the peritoneal cavity to drain pus.[7] He was professor of anatomy and clinical surgery at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and demonstrator of surgery at Jefferson Medical College.[8] He was a charter member of the American Surgical Association and became its president in 1894.[9]
Biography
[edit]He was born on October 17, 1838, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to George Washington Mears and Caroline Sydney Ewing. He attended Trinity College, Hartford and in 1863 he entered Jefferson Medical School.[1] In 1878 he authored a textbook on emergency surgery including amputations. He wrote a paper in 1875 describing an operation whereby the peritoneal cavity was opened to drain pus.[7] In 1910 he wrote a book on the role of reducing yellow fever during the building of the Panama Canal. Mears also lectured Doc Holliday on surgery and anatomy while in Philadelphia,[10] where he lived at 1429 Walnut Street.[11] He died on May 28, 1919.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Practical Surgery: Including Surgical Dressings, Bandaging, Ligations and Amputations. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1878.
- Medicine and Surgery in the Orient: Early Days of the American Surgical Association. Philadelphia, 1908.
- The Old and the Beginning of the New in Surgery. Philadelphia, 1909.
- The Problem of Race Betterment. Philadelphia: WM. J. Dornan, 1910.
- The Triumph of American Medicine in the Construction of the Panama Canal. Philadelphia: WM. J. Dornan, 1911.
- The destiny of the American Surgical Association. Philadelphia: WM. J. Dornan, 1917.
External links
[edit]- Clínicas Urológicas de Norteamérica 2009. Volumen 36 no 3: Vasectomía y ... By Sandlow, Jay I. p. 287
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "James Ewing Mears, M.D., LL.D.". New England Journal of Medicine. 181 (19): 552–554. 1919. doi:10.1056/NEJM191911061811902.
- ^ Sheynkin (2009). "History of Vasectomy". The Urologic Clinics of North America. 36 (3): 285–94. doi:10.1016/j.ucl.2009.05.007. PMID 19643231.
Five years later, in 1890, James Ewing Mears also suggested vasectomy for...
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- ^ Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait By Karen Holliday Tanner, Robert K. Dearment p. 63
- ^ Journal of the Common Council, of the city of Philadelphia, for ..., Volume 1
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