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The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium... -contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture.

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Born: March 11, 1818

Died: October 30, 1890 (aged 72)

Bio: Henry Jacob Bigelow was an American surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Harvard University. A dominating figure in Boston medicine for many decades, he is remembered for the Bigelow maneuver for hip dislocation, a technique for treatment of kidney stones, and other innovations.

Known for:

Orthopedic surgery and other medical papers
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