John Benjamin Murphy

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John Benjamin Murphy (born December 21, 1857 as John Murphy in Appleton (Wisconsin) , † August 11, 1916 in Mackinac Island ) was an American surgeon , especially an internationally important abdominal surgeon . The Murphy symbol and the Murphy button that he introduced in 1892 were named after him.

Murphy was born to Irish émigrés Michael Murphy and Ann Grimes Murphy. After graduating from Appelton High School in 1876, he studied at Rush Medical College, founded in Chicago in 1837, which he left in 1879 after successfully passing the medical exam. He first practiced at the Cook County Hospital in Illinois , but then decided to go to Europe first to practice in Munich , Berlin and Heidelberg . Most of the time, however, he spent in Vienna , where he had spent two years for training purposes, with Theodor Billroth .

After his stay in Europe, he returned to Chicago in 1884 , where, following various study visits there and in Michigan, he was a lecturer ("Lecturer") at Ruth Medical College and in 1892 professor of surgery at the "College of Physicians and Surgeons". From 1895 until his death in 1916, John B. Murphy was, in addition to activities from 1901 at Northwestern University Medical School and at Rush Medical School, chief surgeon at the "Mercy Hospital" in Chicago. In 1911 his main work General Surgery was published in Chicago .

Sources and literature

  • Christoph Weißer: Mechanical intestinal anastomoses in surgery: A contribution to the history of abdominal surgery on the centenary of the Murphy button. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 11, 1993, pp. 9-26; here: pp. 11–23.
  • Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . 2 volumes. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1932 a. 1933 (reprint Munich 1962), volume 2, p. 1093.
  • C. Frederick Kittle: The development of academic surgery in Chicago. In: Surgery , Vol. 62, 1967, pp. 1-11, passim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from May 11, 2020 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sri.sagepub.com
  2. ↑ JB Murphy: Cholecysto-intestinal, gastro-intestinal, entero-intestinal anastomosis, and approximation without sutures. In: Medical Record. A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery , Vol. 42, No. 24, 1892, pp. 665-676.
  3. ^ K. Musana, HH Yale: John Benjamin Murphy (1857-1916). In: Clinical medicine & research. Volume 3, Number 2, May 2005, pp. 110-112, PMID 16012130 , PMC 1183442 (free full text).
  4. ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B0CE0D7153AE633A25751C1A96E9C946796D6CF
  5. ↑ http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1981.html
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, John Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Appleton, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1916
Place of death Mackinac Island , Michigan