John M. T. Finney: Distinguished Surgeon and Oslerphile

John M. T. Finney: distinguished surgeon and Oslerphile.

John Finney (1863-1942) was born near Natchez, Mississippi. After receiving his medical degree from Harvard, he interned at Massachusetts General Hospital and then went to Baltimore to become one of the first interns at the new Johns Hopkins Hospital. He met William Osler the day the hospital opened and became a lifelong admirer of "the Chief." Finney specialized in gastrointestinal surgery and...

Surgeon-Major John Cameron

Surgeon-General John Murray

formation and solution of urinary calculi. Thus early he took up the study of a special subject, which was of great use to him in his subsequent career, and he attained considerable celebrity, when Civil Surgeon of Agra, as a lithotomist. But this was not the only branch in which he excelled ; for, in general surgery, he was well known to be a bold and skilful operator. When a young man, he pro...

John Hunter – A very modern military surgeon

The history of warfare and surgery is long and complex. As Hippocrates' dictum states, war has been the crucible in which many medical advances have been pioneered, and has also been a bloody business. In the time of John Hunter, 40% of those injured on the battlefield could expect to die of their wounds. By the 20 century, with improved technique, anaesthesia and aseptic technique, this had be...

John Banister: an Elizabethan surgeon in Brazil.

In Brazil's sixteenth-century history, very few references are made to health professionals. On the expedition of Edward Fenton, dispatched by the English Crown in 1582 to set up a trading post in Asia, was the famous barber-surgeon and physician John Banister. The naval squadron, diverted from its original route to repeat the feats of Sir Francis Drake, stopped over in Africa, crossed the Atla...