Background
George Hayward was born on March 9, 1791, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Lemuel Hayward (1749 - 1821), surgeon of the Revolution, and was brought up in an atmosphere of strong medical tradition.
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George Hayward was born on March 9, 1791, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Lemuel Hayward (1749 - 1821), surgeon of the Revolution, and was brought up in an atmosphere of strong medical tradition.
After graduating from Harvard College in 1809, George studied medicine at Philadelphia where he came under the influence of Benjamin Rush, Benjamm S. Barton, and Caspar Wistar. He received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1812 and then went abroad for several years, where he had contact with Astley Cooper and John Abernethy.
On his return to Boston George Hayward found his father’s practice awaiting him, which he entered upon conscientiously and with success. He was appointed physician to the Almshouse. In 1834 he became a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School and in 1835, when a new professorship was established in the principles of surgery and clinical surgery, Hayward was made the first incumbent. He had become an assistant surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1826 and in 1838 he was made one of the surgeons-in-chief. After 1835 he began to give regular clinics at the hospital.
On October 16, 1846, Warren removed a fatty tumor from the neck of a patient who had been anesthetized by W. T. G. Morton. Hayward, on the following day, removed a similar tumor from the upper arm of another patient and on November 7 performed the first major operation under ether, involving the amputation of a thigh. The procedure lasted one minute and three-quarters exclusive of ligation of the vessels. On November 4, 1846, Hayward read the introductory lecture at the opening of the new building of the Harvard Medical School on North Grove Street. He retired from the chair of surgery, March 31, 1849. In 1852 Hayward was made a fellow of Harvard Colleg - an unusual honor for a physician and served until his death.
Hayward's medical writings are of considerable importance. With the translation of Bichat’s Anatomie Générale which appeared in Boston in a three-volume edition, he introduced into America the spirit of the French school of pathological anatomists. In 1834 he wrote the first American textbook of Physiology: Outlines of Human Physiology, in which the breadth of his reading was creditably reflected, but which offered little that was the new way of physiological experiment. His various surgical papers were reprinted in 1855 Under the title: Surgical Reports and Miscellaneous Papers on Medical Subjects. All his writings are precise and clear, but not brilliant, his reputation coming rather from his unusual skill as a surgeon. Shortly before his death he destroyed all of his papers which might have been of use to biographers.
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Hayward was secretary of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1832-1835, and president, 1852-1855. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Personally Hayward was retiring and abhorred publicity.
Hayward was married to Caroline Knapp.