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    Ephraim McDowell (November 11, 1771 – June 25, 1830) was an American physician and pioneer surgeon. The first person to successfully remove an ovarian...
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    Ephraim McDowell is a bronze sculpture depicting the American physician and surgeon of the same name by Charles Henry Niehaus, installed in the United...
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    The Dr. Ephraim McDowell House, also known as McDowell House, was a home of medical doctor Ephraim McDowell. The home was declared a U.S. National Historic...
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  • from Ephraim McDowell, a ground-breaking local physician who performed the first ovariotomy in the United States in 1809. Following Dr. McDowell's successful...
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    Kentucky. The most famous of McDowell's sons was Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who performed the first ovariotomy. Ephraim McDowell later married the daughter of...
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  • politician Ephraim McDowell (1771–1830), American physician Fred McDowell (1904–1972), American blues singer and guitar player Graeme McDowell (born 1979)...
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  • American lawyer Ephraim Lewis (1968–1994), English singer-songwriter Ephraim Lipson (1888–1960), British economic historian Ephraim McDowell (1771–1830),...
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    Mountains. It hosts the first state-supported school for the deaf. Ephraim McDowell completed the first known successful laparotomy here in 1809, removing...
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  • for their contributions to these fields include Ephraim McDowell and J. Marion Sims. Ephraim McDowell developed a surgical practice in 1795 and performed...
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    Zachariah Chandler of Michigan (1913), George W. Glick of Kansas (1914), Ephraim McDowell of Kentucky (1929), and Henry Clay of Kentucky (1929) in the collection...
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    (1886) The Biography of Ephraim McDowell: The Father of Ovariotomy (1890). Selected Reprints from Biography of Ephraim McDowell: Portrait and Biographical...
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  • to the Kentucky Medical Society for a hospital as a memorial to Dr. Ephraim McDowell, the famous pioneer surgeon. For many years, Irvinton served as one...
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    back as far as 50BC. The first abdominal hysterectomy recorded was by Ephraim McDowell. He performed the procedure in 1809 for a mother of five for a large...
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    Fr. Jacques Marquette, Wisconsin Patrick Anthony McCarran, Nevada Ephraim McDowell, Kentucky John McLoughlin, Oregon Esther Hobart Morris, Wyoming Julius...
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  • (Philadelphia) in 1817, was performed by Ephraim McDowell (1771–1830), a surgeon from Danville, Kentucky. McDowell was dubbed as the "father of ovariotomy"...
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    Abraham Lincoln, which was donated in 1912. Statues of Henry Clay and Ephraim McDowell were added in 1930. Both of these are the bronzed plaster models used...
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    Revolutionary War including William Campbell, Isaac Shelby, Samuel McDowell, Ephraim McDowell, and Addison White. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, attended...
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    from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020. "Ephraim McDowell". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on December...
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  • remaining Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. December 25 – American physician Ephraim McDowell performs the world's first ovariotomy, the removal of an ovarian tumor...
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  • Jane Crawford may refer to: Jane Todd Crawford, patient from whom Ephraim McDowell removed an ovarian tumour in 1809 Jane Freshfield (1814–1901), born...
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  • The first successful laparotomy was performed without anesthesia by Ephraim McDowell in 1809 in Danville, Kentucky. On July 13, 1881, George E. Goodfellow...
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    slightly less commonly, borderline serous or mucinous cysts. In 1809, Ephraim McDowell became the first surgeon to successfully remove an ovarian cyst. Benign...
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  • Psychiatric 1817 UK HealthCare Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan Hospital Lincoln Stanford 25 General Ephraim McDowell Health Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center...
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    who won the 1902 Kentucky Derby. Breckinridge was grandniece of Dr. Ephraim McDowell. Her distant cousin, Laura Clay, founded the Kentucky Equal Rights...
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  • Kansas 760 I II Albert B. Chandler Hospital Lexington Kentucky 962 I I Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center Danville Kentucky III Frankfort Regional Medical...
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    stones. The journey was broken off by James's severe pain, and Dr. Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Kentucky, operated to remove them. No anesthetic was available...
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  • first Governor of the state of Kentucky. His great-grandfather was Dr. Ephraim McDowell the pioneer surgeon who was the first person to successfully remove...
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  • Cartoonist Ephraim McDowell (1959) Surgeon Barbara McClintock (2005) Geneticist John McCloy (2010) Navy sailor John McCormack (1984) Tenor Cyrus Hall McCormick...
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    couple had eleven children. Their eldest daughter, Sarah, married Dr. Ephraim McDowell, and the youngest daughter, Letitia, married future Kentucky secretary...
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    honor of the famous surgeon Ephraim McDowell in Danville. Gross was presented with the original door knocker from McDowell's home; for a time the gift resided...
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