Dr. Willard Parker

Parker was an unusually skilled surgeon. He was said to be ambidextrous and able to perform surgery equally with either hand. Among his other accomplishments, in 1867 he became the first American to remove a ruptured appendix successfully, and he was the author of several monographs on cancer, including a volume of case histories of breast cancer that was published posthumously in 1885.

Date:
1865 circa 5 years
Original Format:
Carte de Visite
Item#:
MES13647
Photographer:
Meade Brothers (New York)
Height:
1179px
Width:
730px
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