Allen B. Kanavel

Title: Allen B. Kanavel
Description: Portrait of American surgeon Allen B. Kanavel
Contributor: From the painting by Arnaldo Tamburini.
Creator: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Format: 31.1 x 22.7 cm
Publisher: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Source: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories, No. 16 in the series, Great American Surgeons.
Subject: Kanavel, Allen B., 1874-1938.
Type: reproduction
Birth Date: 1874
Death Date: 1938
Occupation: Surgeon.
Biographical Text: Surgeon and Educator. From Instructor in 1902, Dr. Kanavel was elevated to Assistant Professor, to Associate Professor, and in 1919 to Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School; Attending Surgeon, Wesley Memorial and Passavant Memorial Hospitals; a Founder and later President, American College of Surgeons. Developed special technics in plastic surgery, neurologic surgery, and thyroid surgery. His textbook and motion picture on Infections of the Hand have become classic the world over.
Tag: American surgeons.; 19th-century surgeons.