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Surgery
Surgery (from the Greek: χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via Latin: chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function...
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Theodor Billroth
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (26 April 1829 at Bergen auf Rügen in the Kingdom of Prussia. – 6 February 1894) was a German-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.
As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1829
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1894 (age 64 years)
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war, surgeon, and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
Mary Walker was born in the Town of Oswego,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1832
Date of death:
- Feb 21, 1919 (age 86 years)
Joseph Murray
Joseph Edward Murray (born 1 April 1919) is a retired American plastic surgeon. He performed the first successful human kidney transplant from an adult to his identical twin in 1954.
Murray won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1919 (age 90 years)
Edoardo Bassini
Edoardo Bassini (April 14, 1844 – July 19, 1924) was an Italian surgeon who was born in Pavia. In 1866 he received his medical degree from the University of Pavia, and afterwards joined the Italian Unification movement as an infantry soldier under...
Date of birth:
- Apr 14, 1844
Date of death:
- Jul 19, 1924 (age 80 years)
