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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BURNHAM, Walter (1808 – 1883)

1808 – 1883

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1854 CE

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Extirpation of the uterus and ovaries for sarcomatous disease.

BURNHAM, Walter (1808 – 1883)

First successful abdominal hysterectomy, 25 May, 1853. An account of Burnham’s work is given by J. C. Irish in Trans. Amer. med. Ass. 1878, 29, 447-61.