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2001 Dr. Christiaan Barnard, surgeon, ", performed the first heart transplant, South Africa 1967, ", dies at 78

1997 Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81

1997 H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73

1997 Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95

1996 Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85

1995 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74

1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments

1994 M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78

1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general

1988 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin

1968 Charles W. Mayo, U.S. surgeon, dies at 70

1968 James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81

1964 US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous

1960 Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon, dies

1957 U.S. Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer

1951 Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon, dies at 75

1950 Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45

1949 Jack Lovelock, NZ/U.S. surgeon/athlete 1936 Olympics gold, dies at 39

1946 Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor, Jarvik 7 artificial heart

1946 J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon

1944 Antonia Novello, 14th U.S. Surgeon General, 1990-92

1939 William J Mayo, U.S. surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78

1939 Dr. Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures

1939 Charles H Mayo, U.S. surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74

1933 Jocelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General, -1994

1928 James White, sci-fi author, Star Surgeon, Star Healer

1928 Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon

1923 Paul Bramley, oral surgeon

1923 Norman E. Shumway, born in Michigan, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon

1922 Christiaan Barnard, South Africa, surgeon, perform 1st heart transplant

1921 John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon

1920 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon

1920 Denton Cooley, Houston, heart surgeon, 1st artifical heart transplant

1920 Arnold Elton, consultant surgeon

1916 C Everett Koop, surgeon general, 1981-89

1916 Douglas Ranger, surgeon

1916 Andrew Kay, surgeon/professor of surgery, University of Glasgow

1916 Reginald Murley, surgeon

1914 Lord Smith, British surgeon

1911 Michael Woodruff, FRS, surgeon

1910 Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon

1910 Vernon Thompson, thoracic surgeon

1910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91

1910 Jack Lovelock, NZ/U.S. surgeon/runner 1936 Olympics gold

1908 Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral

1902 Dr. Harvey Cushing, 1st U.S. brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation

1901 Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher

1899 James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85

1898 Marie J Hugenholtz, [Doctor Grandi], surgeon on Curacao

1875 Ernst F. Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon

1873 Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist, Nobel 1912

1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor

1865 Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder, Mayo Clinic

1861 William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota

1856 Daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon, 1st open heart operation

1852 John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry

1851 Walter Reed, U.S. Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever

1841 Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist, Nobel 1909

1841 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49

1837 William Williams Keen, surgeon, brain

1829 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon

1828 Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist

1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology

1824 Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro, located speech center

1818 Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist

1818 Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist, Surgeon's Stories

1815 Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer, use of ether

1814 James Paget, English surgeon, disease of Paget

1813 Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms

1813 James Marion Sims, South Carolina, surgeon/gynecologist, vesicovaginal operation

1798 Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy

1795 James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army

1791 Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart

1791 George Hayward, U.S., surgeon, 1st to use ether

1785 William Beaumont, surgeon, studied digestion

1772 Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged

1771 Ephraim McDowell, surgeon, pioneered abdominal surgery

1770 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73

1764 John Abernethy, London, surgeon

1697 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist

1692 Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon, Insel Felsenburg

1651 Engelbrecht Kampfer, German/Neth VOC surgeon

1590 Ambroise Pare, French surgeon, dies at 80



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