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George Jackson Fisher (November 27, 1825 - February 3, 1893) was a United States surgeon, author, bibliophile and collector.
Fisher was born in North Castle, New York. After study at the University of Buffalo, he attended the New York University Medical School, where he graduated in 1849. In 1851 he moved to what is now Ossining, New York. He was medical attendant at the state prison in Sing Sing from 1853 to 1854, United States examining physician of the Seventh Brigade of the New York State National Guard from 1853 to 1873, president of the New York State Medical Society in 1874, and a delegate to the 1876 International Medical Congress. He was the defendant in a noted suit for slander (Wm. P. Woodcock Jr., M.D. versus George Jackson Fisher, both of Sing Sing; September 1873).
He assembled a library of over 4000 volumes, taking a particular interest in anatomy and monstrosities. He brought together 500 portraits (donated to the Johns Hopkins Hospital Library) and 450 medals.
He succeeded Dr. Samuel D. Gross as the contributor of a "History of Surgery" to the International Encyclopædia of Surgery, and published:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was founded in 1889 using money from a bequest of over $7 million by city merchant, banker/financier, civic leader and philanthropist Johns Hopkins (1795–1873). Johns Hopkins Hospital and its school of medicine are considered to be the founding institutions of modern American medicine and the birthplace of numerous famous medical traditions including rounds, residents and house staff. Many medical specialties were formed at the hospital including neurosurgery, by Dr. Harvey Cushing and Dr. Walter Dandy; cardiac surgery by Dr. Alfred Blalock; and child psychiatry, by Dr. Leo Kanner. Attached to the hospital is the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center which serves infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21.
Lee Miller Emile Morin M.D., Ph.D. is a United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He flew on STS-110 in 2002.
The Tulane University School of Medicine is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States and is a part of Tulane University. The school is located in the Medical District of the New Orleans Central Business District.
Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a surgical specialty focusing on reconstructive surgery of the face, facial trauma surgery, the oral cavity, head and neck, mouth, and jaws, as well as facial cosmetic surgery.
Albert Vander Veer was a pioneering American surgeon, credited with performing the first thyroidectomy.
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy or University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, commonly known by the abbreviation UMFCD, is a public health sciences university in Bucharest, Romania. It is one of the largest and oldest institutions of its kind in Romania. The university uses the facilities of over 20 clinical hospitals all over Bucharest.
Charles Caldwell was a noted 19th-century U.S. physician who is best known for starting what would become the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
Samuel David Gross was an American academic trauma surgeon. Surgeon biographer Isaac Minis Hays called Gross "The Nestor of American Surgery." He is immortalized in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic (1875), a prominent American painting of the nineteenth century. A bronze statue of him was cast by Alexander Stirling Calder and erected on the National Mall, but moved in 1970 to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
John Dix Fisher was a physician and founder of Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts.
MSU Faculty of Medicine or FBM/FFM MSU is a medical faculty in Moscow State University. Founded in 1992 by an order of the Rector of Moscow State University, Professor V.A.Sadovnichy, FBM MSU is one of the institutions of higher learning in medicine in Russian Federation.
Archibald Robertson was a Scottish physician and medical author who had a notable naval career, followed by a long private practice.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is the professional medical school of the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. SMHS is one of the most selective medical schools in the United States based on the number of applicants.
James Read Chadwick was an American gynecologist and medical librarian remembered for describing the Chadwick sign of early pregnancy in 1887.
Edward Charles Spitzka was an eminent late-19th century alienist, neurologist, and anatomist. Dr. Spitzka was the author of the landmark psychiatric manual "Treatise on Insanity, Its Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment" published in 1883. He pioneered studies of the anatomy of the human nervous system.
Geneva Medical College was founded on September 15, 1834, in Geneva, New York, as a separate department (college) of Geneva College, currently known as Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In 1871, the medical school was transferred to Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. In 1950, the university sold the college for $1 to the State University of New York, where it remains today.
Fairfield Academy was an academy that existed for nearly one hundred years in the Town of Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York.
Willard Parker was a surgeon of the United States, for many years a professor at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons and other schools.
The Boston Society for Medical Improvement was an elite society of Boston physicians, established in 1828 for "the cultivation of confidence and good feeling between members of the profession; the eliciting and imparting of information upon the different branches of medical science; and the establishment of a Museum and Library of Pathological Anatomy". It held regular meetings until at least 1917.
Seymour I. Schwartz, was the Distinguished Alumni Professor for the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He was one of the most prolific and honored surgeons in American history with further successes outside of the field of medicine as a renowned author and cartographic historian. His most notable accomplishments in surgery include being the founding Editor-in-Chief of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester (1987-1998), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (1996-2004) and President of the American College of Surgeons (1997-1998). After spending nearly 65 years in the field of surgery, he has published hundreds of research articles, textbook chapters, and received numerous honors in the United States and abroad. Schwartz has lectured throughout the world as a visiting professor and donated to many philanthropic endeavors. His influence on surgical education and leadership has impacted nearly every practicing surgeon in the world. Throughout his career, Schwartz has treated and changed the lives of tens of thousands of patients and trained generations of residents and fellows to share in his legacy and do the same.
Thomas L. Maddin (1826–1908) was an American physician. He treated black slaves in Alabama in the antebellum era. He served as the director of a hospital for the Confederate States Army in Nashville, Tennessee during the American Civil War. He was a professor of medicine at the University of Nashville and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
