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Excerpt from Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, 1870-71, Vol. 1: A Bi-Monthly Illustration of Interesting Cases, Accompanied by Notes The photographic review OF medicine and' surgery having completed its first year, a few words explanatory of the enterprise are perhaps due to the volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Francis Fontaine Maury was born on August 9, 1840 near Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. He spent his boyhood days on the farm which was the scene of the research of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who gave to surgery the operation of ovariotomy. Maury's parents were Matthew Fontaine Maury, an Episcopal clergyman, and Eliza (Chipman) Maury, of Middlebury, Vt. His grandfather, for whom he was named, was a first cousin of the distinguished naval officer, Matthew Fontaine Maury.
Maury received the degree of bachelor of arts from Centre College on June 28, 1860, and entered the medical department of the University of Virginia the same year. He continued his medical studies at Jefferson Medical College, graduating March 8, 1862.
In 1862 he was appointed to an unexpired term as resident interne to the Philadelphia Hospital (now Philadelphia General Hospital). Here he proved himself possessed of abundant energy, acuity of observation, a retentive memory, and astuteness in evaluating a patient's ability to withstand surgery. On April 1, 1863, he was commissioned acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army, with duties at the South Street General Hospital, which position he occupied until April 15, 1865. In October 1863 he was elected clinical assistant to Prof. S. D. Gross in the department of surgery at Jefferson Medical College, and here conducted private teaching until 1864, when he became chief of the surgical clinic at Jefferson Medical College. On November 27, 1865, he was appointed chief surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital. His private practice in surgery grew with unusual rapidity. He became a member of the American Dermatological Association and Pathological Society of Philadelphia in 1865; of the College of Physicians in 1866, the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1868, and the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1877.
Maury is known as acting assistant surgeon for Union Army during the Civil War. Among his notable feats in surgery were ligation of the common carotid and subclavian arteries for aortic aneurism; gastrotomy for relief of syphilitic stricture of the esophagus (he was the first to perform this operation in America; see American Journal of the Medical Sciences, April 1870); resection of a portion of the brachial plexus to relieve the pain in neuroma of the skin of the upper extremity (Ibid. , July 1874; the first operation of this nature on record); the removal of cystic goiters; and his special plastic operation for exstrophy of the bladder, using the flap from the perineum and scrotum. He had the first recovery following amputation of the hip joint, in America; and was dexterous at lithotomy and lithotrity. He edited conjointly with Dr. Duhring, the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery (1870 - 72). His last literary contribution was a paper written in collaboration with C. W. Dulles on "Tattooing as a Means of Communicating Syphilis" (American Journal of the Medical Sciences, January 1878).
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a member of the American Dermatological Association, a member of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia
Dr. Samuel W. Gross, in a memoir of Maury (post) read before the College of Physicians, characterized him as a cool, dextrous, cautious surgeon, of sound judgment.
Maury was married to Kate F. Ingersoll Maury.
