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BROWN, John Ball (1784 – 1862)

1784 – 1862

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1839 CE

#4322.2

Operations on club-feet.

Brown was the first surgeon in the United States to specialize in orthopedics, founding the Orthopedic Infirmary of the City of Boston (soon renamed the Boston Orthopedic Institution) in 1838. Brown was also the first…