Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Dr. John B. Deaver, 76, since 1886 chief surgeon at Philadelphia's old-time German Hospital (now the Lankenau), Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania; of anemia; in Philadelphia. His specialty: appendectomy. One year he performed an average of six operations every weekday. He could manipulate his scalpel with both right and left hands. He was a surgeon's surgeon; he operated on more medical men than any other surgeon in the land. Once 160 physicians attended a dinner in his honor, given by men upon whom he had performed major operations...