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Evarts Ambrose Graham
Evarts Ambrose Graham
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was cured of his disease. Ochsner and Graham noted that practically all of the patients with lung cancer upon whom they operated were habitual cigarette smokers.
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He was a charter member of the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital and was president of the medical staff from 1898 to 1901. Although David Graham had contact with Christian Fenger, the Danish physician who first brought to Chicago and the Midwest knowledge of cellular pathology, bacteria, and infectious disease, he remained skeptical and paid scant attention to aseptic techniques in his surgical work.
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After the completion of these two years, Evarts entered Rush Medical College and began his training in the clinical subjects. He made an outstanding record as an undergraduate student and was given an appointment in pathology with Ludvig Hektoen.
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She was also active in a wide range of educational and civic matters, including civil liberties and air pollution control. She served as vice-president of the St.
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Dunham and chemist Richard D Bell to become what came to be known as the Empyema Commission.
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It was a great contribution to the treatment of empyema and opened the way for Dr. Graham's subsequent career as one of the leaders of the new thoracic surgery.
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The corporation approved his appointment as Professor of Surgery effective July 1, 1919. "Evarts's prompt acceptance of this appointment after such a short visit was surprising to me but was explained many years later when by chance I recognized his face in a group photograph of a large attendance at the first convention of the Federation for Experimental Biology and Medicine to meet in St.
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loyal to his friends and to his responsibilities, of unshakable mental integrity, outspoken and with wide vision. He was invaluable not only to his department and field, but as a member of the executive faculty of the whole medical school and from this post his influence in the field of medical education and practice spread worldwide." This eloquent tribute by Dean Shaffer was re-echoed by the many faculty members who attended Dr.
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His department became one of the leading centers for thoracic surgery in the United States. At that time removal of a lobe of the lung was occasionally done in patients with cancer of the lung where the tumor was thought to be limited tO one lobe.
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Evarts Ambrose Graham lighted man's way to longer life and better health by his diligent pursuit of truth and by his brilliant and courageous achievements in surgery and medical research; and "Whereas, Dr. Graham devoted thirty-eight years of his life to a distinguished career with the Washington University Medical School, receiving international acclaim for his valuable leadership in medical education; and "Whereas, Dr.
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University of Chicago 1924 and 1934 Harvey Lecturer 1924 Mutter Lecturer 1926 McArthur Lecturer 1928 Shattuck Lecturer 1930 Melbourne (Australia) Permanent Postgraduate Com mittee 1930 Alvarez Lecturer 1931 Joyce Lecturer 1932 Arthur Dean Bevan Lecturer 1933 Caldwell Lecturer 1935 Balfour Lecturer 1937 Judd Lecturer
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232 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1920 Co-editor, Archives of Surgery 1920 Gross Prize 1921 Societe Internationale de Chirurgie 1922 Sent by Rockefeller Foundation to Great Britain to investigate teaching of surgery in British Medical Schools 1924-1933 Member, National Board of Examiners 1925 Temporary Surgeon-in-Chief, Peter Bent Brigham Hos pital 1925 Editor, Yearbook of Surgery 1925 Gold Medal, Radiological Society of North America 1925 Leonard Research Prize, American Roentgen Society 1925-1939 Member, Medical Fellowship Board, National Research Council 1927 Gold Medal, St. Louis Medical Society 1928 President, American Association for Thoracic Surgery Society of Clinical Surgery 1931 Editor, Journal of Thoracic Surgery 1932 Kaiserlich Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher 1933 Gold Medal, Southern Medical Association 1934 Co-editor, Annals of Surgery 1937 John Scott Medal of the City of Philadelphia 1937 President, American Surgical Association 1937-1941 Chairman, American Board of Surgery 1938 Honorary Fellowship, Association of Surgeons of Great 1938 1939 1940 1941 1941 1941 Britain and Ireland Honorary Membership, Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Temporary Professor of Surgery, St.
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EVARTS AMBROSE GRAHAM 1941 1942 1942 1942 1943 233 Honorary Member, Argentine Society of Surgeons Member of committee appointed by Secretary of War to study the Medical Department of the Army Lister Medal for 1942 St. Louis Award Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Surgeons of England
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T = Southern Medical journal Surg.
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Obstet., 19:360-64. 1915 The resistance of pups to late chloroform poisoning in relation to river glycogen.
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journal of the Iowa Medical Society, 8: 130. An unusual skin infection due to B
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Pathogenesis of infections of the biliary tract. Transactions of the American Surgical Association, 39:126-38.
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Obstet., 36:348. Recent phases of thoracic surgery.
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Chap. 2 in: Thoracic Surgery, the Surgical Treatment of Thoracic Disease, by H
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British Medical Journal, 2:671-76. The surgical treatment of pulmonary suppuration in children.
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New York: Rockefeller Foundation. 1928 The bronchoscopic and surgical treatments of pulmonary suppuration.
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800 pp. The surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Surg., 14:382-83. Lowering the mortality after operations on the biliary tract.
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The clinical application of some recent knowledge of the biliary tract (Harvey Lecture) The Harvey Lectures, 1933-1934, 29:176203.
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Surg., 6~5~: 544-60. Samuel Gross looks in on the American Surgical Association.
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R T innincott Co ~~ rr1940 A plea for the earlier recognition of bronchiogenic carcinoma. In: Frank Howard Lahey Birthday Volume, pp.
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Developmental abnormalities of the lung and bronchiogenic carcinoma.
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Wisconsin Medical Journal, 48:232-34. Bronchiogenic carcinoma.
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1954 Remarks on the aetiology of bronchiogenic carcinoma. (From the Second Sir John Fraser Lecture delivered at the University of Edinburgh on May 11, 1954)
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Medical Clinics of North America, 41: 1061-70. A brief account of the development of thoracic surgery and some of its consequences.
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