Edward Martin

Item

Title
Edward Martin
Description
Portrait of American surgeon Edward Martin.
Creator
Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Format
31 x 22.5 cm
Publisher
Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Source
No. 18 in the Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Subject
Martin, Edward, 1859-1938.
Type
reproduction
Birth Date
1859
Death Date
1938
Occupation
Surgeon.
Biographical Text
Surgeon, Organizer, and Educator. One of the twelve members of the Committee on Organization of the American College of Surgeons; President of the College's Clinical Congress; Clinical Professor of Surgery, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1902; at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School served as Professor of Clinical Surgery, 1903-1910, and John Rhea Barton Professor of Surgery, 1910-1918; Director, Public Health and Charities, City of Philadelphia, 1903-1905; Commissioner of Health, State of Pennsylvania, 1919-1923; Consulting Surgeon for the Firth Army Corps, Spanish-American War; Colonel, 364th Medical Regiment Officers Reserve Cops; Member, Board of Managers, Swarthmore College, 1892-1938.
Tag
American surgeons.
19th-century surgeons.