title: John Syng Dorsey --writer of the first American systematic surgical textbook.
authors.affiliation: Michigan State University, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Borgess Research Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Luis H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Toledo-Pereyra
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States