Word: erdmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of operating on some 20,000 patients, Manhattan's famed Surgeon John F. Erdmann (TIME, Dec. 7, 1942) has always managed to perform at least one operation on his birthday. But last week, as his 81st birthday loomed, none of his patients needed an operation. Gloomily Dr. Erdmann decided he would have to let his record stop...
Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...summer of 1893, when the country was in the midst of the free silver debate, President Cleveland secretly had a cancer removed from his upper left jaw. Dr. Erdmann went along. "The yacht Oneida, owned by the late E. C. Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning...
...owes his popularity as a surgeon to the so-called Erdmann technique, which is not a technique at all, but an amazing speed in operating attained through practice, great anatomical knowledge and never-ending study. There is no Erdmann operation-the doctor never concentrated exclusively on any one area. He would as soon cut off a leg as go after an appendix, is at home in the skull and the thorax. He teaches surgery, but has never been able to teach the Erdmann technique...
...relate: around 1930 Vanity Fair heard of the "technique," readily got permission for famed Photographer Edward Steichen to photograph it in action. Came the day, and Steichen disposed his assistants high in the amphitheater with flash bulbs. The patient, a woman, had hardly arrived on the scene when Erdmann opened up her abdomen from top to bottom with one neat slice. Suddenly, in the rafters, the photographer's assistants lost their lunches and their balances. Steichen gave up for that day. Next time he fortified himself with troops who had been "blooded." After Erdmann's usual greetings...