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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Ephraim McDowell Biography McDOWELL, Ephriam (1771-1830). An American surgeon, born in Rockbridge Co., Va. He attended medical lectures in Edinburgh in 1793-94; settled at Danville, Ky., in 1795, and attained prominence as a surgeon. In 1809 he performed the first operation recorded in the United States in ovarian surgery. A report of this and of other cases appeared in the Eclectic Repertory and Analytic Review in 1817. He was skillful in many branches of the surgical art. The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 562. |