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28322	Yandell, David Wendel	Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky: A Sketch			.txt	text/plain	7251	427	73	achievements of Kentucky Pioneers in Surgery, I shall not attempt the It proved to be the first operation of the kind in the United States. operation in surgery came so near perfection that it would successfully the age of twenty he began the study of medicine, in Lexington, with Dr. Frederick Ridgely, a very cultivated physician and popular man, who had His father, Samuel McDowell, was a man of note and influence operated by the lateral method, and for many years used the gorget in and the patient lived, in good health, to be forty-nine years old. The only published report of McCreary's case is from the pen of Dr. Johnson, in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal for January, A younger man than either of those I have attempted to sketch, Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley, now came upon the stage. medical colleges--would practically cover Dr. Dudley's career, and would	./cache/28322.txt	./txt/28322.txt