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cord-258760-65dw8d5h	Barr, Justin	Surgeons, plague, and leadership: A historical mantle to carry forward	2020-05-05		.txt	text/plain	698	45	49	Throughout history, surgeons like Guy de Chauliac, James Lind, John Hunter, John Snow, and Walter Reed have led scientific campaigns to understand, prevent, and treat epidemics like the bubonic plague, scurvy, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever. Through his writings, this surgeon emerged as the contemporary authority on the condition, shaping scientific understanding of bubonic plague and medical responses to it for decades. Guy epitomizes surgeons who have investigated novel infectious diseases and contributed significant knowledge to their causation, prevention, and treatment. Desperate to clarify its etiology, John Hunter, the father of scientific surgery, injected the purulent discharge from an infected patient's penis into his own member in an effort to understand the process of transmission and attempt to discriminate it from concomitant gonorrheal infection. 9 Historically, surgeons have led global efforts against pandemics, thus addressing some of humanity's most devastating health challenges.	./cache/cord-258760-65dw8d5h.txt	./txt/cord-258760-65dw8d5h.txt