Frontier Surgeon
By L. Henry Dowell
Frontier Surgeon is a play that needs 1 performers. Licensed by Black Box Theatre Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 1 performers
- Cast notes
- 1
- Running time
- About 35 minutes
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Black Box Theatre Publishing
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Synopsis
On Christmas Day 1809, a thousand miles from the nearest hospital and thirty-five years before the development of anesthesia, Dr. Ephraim McDowell removed a 22-pound ovarian tumor from the abdomen of a Kentucky woman. It was the world's first ovariotomy, and it eventually brought McDowell worldwide acclaim as the Father of Abdominal Surgery. Ephraim McDowell was born in Rockbridge, Virginia. His father, Samuel, was a colonel in the American Revolution, and was asked by President George Washingto
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