Word: synge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital has marked many firsts in medicine and surgery. In 1816, Surgeon Philip Syng Physick was the first American to use animal tissue to sew up wounds. In 1887, Dr. Thomas G. Morton performed the first successful operation for the removal of a diseased appendix. Some other surgeons are remembered for odd reasons: as late as the 1870s, Dr. David Hayes Agnew insisted on stropping his scalpel on his boot sole, and Dr. George C. Harlan, for handiness, held instruments between his teeth...
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