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Excerpt from Report of the Lowell Hospital, From 1840 to 1849: Made to the Trustees, June 12th, 1849 The above statement serves to illustrate one or two im portant points. It shows, in the first place, that Typhoid fever is the most constant, the most prevalent, and the most important disease among our operatives. That from this cause, more deaths occur, than from all other maladies com ing under Hospital treatment. I think, too, it will appear that the disease is less fatal, and of shorter duration, than is generally supposed. Again, comparing the cases given in the above table, with similar cases treated elsewhere, it will appear that the results are remarkably favorable. 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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Gilman Kimball was born on December 08, 1804 in New Chester (now Hill), New Hampshire, United States, the son of Ebenezer and Polly (Aiken) Kimball. He was descended from Richard Kimball who emigrated to America in 1634 and settled eventually in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Kimball was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in 1827. During his four years' medical course he spent part of his time in Boston at the office of Edward Reynolds, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Harvard Medical School. In 1856 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Medicine degree at Yale College in Connecticut.
Kimball served for a time as resident physician at the United States Marine Hospital in Boston. After two years of general practice in Chicopee, Massachusetts, he spent a year in Paris studying surgery with Guillaume Dupuytren, the best teacher of the time. Returning, he settled in 1830 in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life.
First as a mill surgeon and later as surgeon to the Lowell Corporation Hospital, established in 1839, he was a pioneer in difficult, and at that time almost unknown, operations in gynecology. One of his earliest operations was the successful removal of a tumor of the uterus on September 1, 1853, by abdominal incision and on March 1, 1854, he operated, also with success, upon a patient with an ovarian tumor. He performed both operations with the use of chloroform and without the benefit of asepsis. Kimball also performed excellent traumatic surgery, including an excision of the elbow joint, amputation of the hip joint, and successful ligation of some of the larger external arteries.
In 1870 he joined Ephraim Cutter in the treatment of uterine tumors by electrolysis.
In addition to his extensive surgical practice, he taught in the Berkshire Medical Institution and at a number of other local medical schools, served during the Civil War as brigade surgeon, and visited Europe several times to make a survey of the practice of ovariotomy.
Kimball achieved a reputation as one of the foremost surgeons in America, and his courage and skill contributed in no small degree to the progress of medicine in the United States. During his career, he performed over three hundred major operations in a period of about forty years. Many of them were unknown at the time and even condemned by the medical profession as unjustifiable.
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Kimball served as vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1878 and as president of the American Gynecological Association in 1882-1883.
Kimball married twice: first Mary, daughter of Henry Dewar, a physician of Edinburgh, Scotland, and, secondly, Isabella, daughter of Henry I. Defries of Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was survived by his second wife and a son.
