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Our surgical heritage United States of America
SPECIAL
DEPARTMENT
Our
Surgical
Heritage
D. P. HALL, M.D..Surgical Department, University q/ Lolrisvzllc, Louisville, Iientuck~ UNITED
STATES
JAMES
J
OF AMERICA
RUSHMORE
WOOD
RUSHMORE WOOD was born at Mamaroneck, New York on September I-I-, 1813 of a Quaker family. Wood attended his first year in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York during 1830. He later matriculated in the Vermont Academy of Medicine (the Castleton Medical College), being awarded the 1I.D. degree in 1834. He began his practice in New York and in the same era as Willard Parker and Valentine Mott. When Bellevue Hospital was about to be razed because of the high mortality in the institution, Wood and Willard Parker saved the Hospital. Through the efforts of Wood, Bellevue Hospital on May 1, 1873 opened the first training school for nurses in America.
Vol.
112.
AMES
December
1966
955
95G
Our Surgical
Heritage
James K. Wood \~as at one time Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital llledical College. His lectures on operative surgery were so popular that students flocked from other colleges to learn from this (>amaliel. \Vood did outstanding I\-ark on the periosteal reproduction of bone, the surgery of nerves, vascular surgery, and the surgery of bladder calculus, inventing the “bisector, ” an instrument for use on stones. James Rushmore Wood died on May 1, 1SS2, in the budding period of ;\merican surgery. He was known affectionately by his students as “Jimmy Wood.” To capture this respect in his era was the highest compliment. “A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” (II Timothy)
DEPARTMENT
Our
Surgical
Heritage
D. P. HALL, M.D..Surgical Department, University q/ Lolrisvzllc, Louisville, Iientuck~ UNITED
STATES
JAMES
J
OF AMERICA
RUSHMORE
WOOD
RUSHMORE WOOD was born at Mamaroneck, New York on September I-I-, 1813 of a Quaker family. Wood attended his first year in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York during 1830. He later matriculated in the Vermont Academy of Medicine (the Castleton Medical College), being awarded the 1I.D. degree in 1834. He began his practice in New York and in the same era as Willard Parker and Valentine Mott. When Bellevue Hospital was about to be razed because of the high mortality in the institution, Wood and Willard Parker saved the Hospital. Through the efforts of Wood, Bellevue Hospital on May 1, 1873 opened the first training school for nurses in America.
Vol.
112.
AMES
December
1966
955
95G
Our Surgical
Heritage
James K. Wood \~as at one time Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital llledical College. His lectures on operative surgery were so popular that students flocked from other colleges to learn from this (>amaliel. \Vood did outstanding I\-ark on the periosteal reproduction of bone, the surgery of nerves, vascular surgery, and the surgery of bladder calculus, inventing the “bisector, ” an instrument for use on stones. James Rushmore Wood died on May 1, 1SS2, in the budding period of ;\merican surgery. He was known affectionately by his students as “Jimmy Wood.” To capture this respect in his era was the highest compliment. “A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” (II Timothy)