A bronze model of Kentucky doctor Ephraim McDowell, known as the “father of abdominal surgery,” stands in the United States Capitol Visitor’s Center, a part of the esteemed National Statuary ...

When the ninth and then the tenth month passed with no sign of birth, her doctors summoned the surgeon said to be the best on the frontier, Dr. Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Kentucky. The year was ...

A lawyer by training, after the war he moved to Kentucky and became a judge. Ephraim McDowell, the son of Samuel and the grandson of the surveyor John, became a famous doctor. He attended Humphreys ...

1809: Dr. Ephraim McDowell, a pioneer in abdominal surgery, examines his patient and makes the decision to attempt the first surgical removal of an ovarian tumor, earning him the sobriquet "Father ...

by Dr. Ephraim McDowell. The remarkable story, as well as a description of the procedure, is told by John L. Wilson in his 1998 manuscript, “Stanford University School of Medicine and the ...