title: American surgical biographies.
abstract: Finding adequate biographical data on a given surgeon can cause great difficulty because of the lack of a single source containing biographies of these people. This article provides short biographies of 15 American surgeons of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries: Henry Jacob Bigelow, Joseph Decatur Bryant, Gurdon Buck, John Murray Carnochan, John Syng Dorsey, George Michael Edebohls, Christian Fenger, George Ryerson Fowler, Arpad Geza Charles Gerster, William Gibson, Frank Hastings Hamilton, William Tod Helmuth, Andrew Jackson Howe, Joseph Pancoast, and John Allan Wyeth.
authors.affiliation: Freehold Area Hospital, New Jersey.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Rutkow
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D014481:United States