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Our surgical heritage United States of America
SPECIAL
DEPARTMENT
Our D. P.
IjALL,
M.D.,
Surgical
Surgical Department,
Heritage
University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
JOSEPH EASTMAN
J
OSEPH EASTMAN, he of the retractor and extra-uterine pregnancy fame, was born in F&on County, New York on January 29, 1842. His earIy education was obtained in rura1 schooIs and by apprenticeship; at the age of eighteen he had become a master bIacksmith. During the American war between the states, he served as a private in the Seventy-Seventh New York VoIunteers. FolIowing the battIe of Williamsburg, he contracted typhoid fever and was at Mt. PIeasant Hospital in Washington, D. C. After recovery, he became a hospita1 steward and concurrentIy attended Georgetown University where he received a Degree in Medicine in 1865. He began the practice of medicine at Brownsburg, Indiana, where he Iived 993
American
Journal
of Surgery.
Volume
106, Derembu
,963
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Heritage
for seven years. He received a Degree in Medicine from BeIIevue HospitaI MedicaI ColIege in New York City in 1871. Dr. Eastman, in 1873, was made Demonstrator of Anatomy in the CoIIege of Physicians and Surgeons of IndianapoIis, Indiana. Here he became the assistant in gynecology of Dr. TheophiIus Parvin, and consuiting surgeon to the IndianapoIis City Hospital. Joseph Eastman, in 1879, was an organizer of the CentraI CoIIege of Physicians and Surgeons in IndianapoIis, and was Professor of anatomy and cIinica1 surgery. Later he became Professor of diseases of women and abdominal surgery. He was the first American surgeon to operate upon an extrauterine pregnancy by dissecting the sac which encIosed the chiId, saving the Iives of both child and mother. Dr. Eastman perfected an operation for hysterectomy, in fibroid tumors, by the use of the Eastman hysterectomy staff, which was used for many years by European surgeons. From 1894 to Igoo, Dr. Eastman was a member of the Board of Trustees of the American MedicaI Association and in 1891, a Doctor of Laws degree was conferred upon him at Wabash CoIIege of CrawfordsviIIe, Indiana. Dr. Eastman died, June 3, 1902 in IndianapoIis, Indiana. “No man’s life ends untimeIy that has been fiIIed with devotion to duty.”
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DEPARTMENT
Our D. P.
IjALL,
M.D.,
Surgical
Surgical Department,
Heritage
University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
JOSEPH EASTMAN
J
OSEPH EASTMAN, he of the retractor and extra-uterine pregnancy fame, was born in F&on County, New York on January 29, 1842. His earIy education was obtained in rura1 schooIs and by apprenticeship; at the age of eighteen he had become a master bIacksmith. During the American war between the states, he served as a private in the Seventy-Seventh New York VoIunteers. FolIowing the battIe of Williamsburg, he contracted typhoid fever and was at Mt. PIeasant Hospital in Washington, D. C. After recovery, he became a hospita1 steward and concurrentIy attended Georgetown University where he received a Degree in Medicine in 1865. He began the practice of medicine at Brownsburg, Indiana, where he Iived 993
American
Journal
of Surgery.
Volume
106, Derembu
,963
Our SurgicaI
Heritage
for seven years. He received a Degree in Medicine from BeIIevue HospitaI MedicaI ColIege in New York City in 1871. Dr. Eastman, in 1873, was made Demonstrator of Anatomy in the CoIIege of Physicians and Surgeons of IndianapoIis, Indiana. Here he became the assistant in gynecology of Dr. TheophiIus Parvin, and consuiting surgeon to the IndianapoIis City Hospital. Joseph Eastman, in 1879, was an organizer of the CentraI CoIIege of Physicians and Surgeons in IndianapoIis, and was Professor of anatomy and cIinica1 surgery. Later he became Professor of diseases of women and abdominal surgery. He was the first American surgeon to operate upon an extrauterine pregnancy by dissecting the sac which encIosed the chiId, saving the Iives of both child and mother. Dr. Eastman perfected an operation for hysterectomy, in fibroid tumors, by the use of the Eastman hysterectomy staff, which was used for many years by European surgeons. From 1894 to Igoo, Dr. Eastman was a member of the Board of Trustees of the American MedicaI Association and in 1891, a Doctor of Laws degree was conferred upon him at Wabash CoIIege of CrawfordsviIIe, Indiana. Dr. Eastman died, June 3, 1902 in IndianapoIis, Indiana. “No man’s life ends untimeIy that has been fiIIed with devotion to duty.”
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