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Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830) U.S. surgeon. "In 1809 he performed the first operation recorded in the United States in ovarian surgery." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 562.)
James G. Mumford, M.D. Surgical Memoirs and Other Essays. (New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1908). 82.
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