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John Murphy was born on December 21, 1857, in a log cabin in Appleton, Wisconsin, of Irish parents, Michael Murphy and Ann Grimes.
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John Murphy was born on December 21, 1857, in a log cabin in Appleton, Wisconsin, of Irish parents, Michael Murphy and Ann Grimes.
After a preliminary education in the public schools and some medical studies under Dr. John R. Reilly of Appleton, Murphy entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he was graduated in 1879. Following an internship in the Cook County Hospital, he spent two years in graduate study in Vienna.
He was awarded a Doctor of Science by University of Sheffield, England, in 1908.
Returning to Chicago, he associated himself in practice with Dr. Edward W. Lee. In 1884 he became lecturer in surgery at Rush Medical College. His later teaching positions were as follows: professor of clinical surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, 1892 - 1901; professor of surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, 1901 - 1905; professor of surgery, Rush Medical College, 1905 - 1908; and again professor of surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, 1908 - 1916.
He became chief of the surgical staff of Mercy Hospital in 1895, which position he held until his death. For much of his career he was an attending surgeon at Cook County Hospital.
Murphy began his professional career at a time when bacteriological investigation and antiseptic methods were greatly increasing the possibilities of abdominal surgery. It was to this field that he turned his early efforts. He was one of the first to investigate the cause and treatment of peritonitis following appendicitis. Being of an inventive turn of mind, he produced in 1892 the Murphy button, a mechanical device for making rapid and accurate intestinal and gastro-intestinal anastomosis. This device revolutionized the gastro-intestinal surgery of the time and made possible life-saving operations that never would have been attempted without its help. Though the Murphy button will be remembered as his outstanding contribution to surgery, he advanced the surgical knowledge of every region of the abdomen.
Later, he devoted himself to the principles underlying the surgery of the lungs and of the nervous system, and his later years were largely devoted to the surgery of bones and joints, particularly to deformities due to infections. He was a rapid operator with mechanical skill of the highest order. He was also the first of the master-surgeons of Chicago to whom surgical asepsis was a matter of intuition.
The stress of his work brought on attacks of angina pectoris, from which he was invalided for several months before his death, which took place on August 11, 1916, at Mackinac Island, Michigan.
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John Murphy was deeply religious, and scrupulous in his religious obligations.
John Benjamin Murphy held membership in the principal surgical societies of America and Europe and was president of the American Medical Association, 1910 - 1911, and of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons, 1914 - 1915.
In addition, he was elected President of the Chicago Medical Society and was a member of the American Surgical Association.
Physically John Murphy was tall and powerfully built, with a florid complexion, thin hair, a red beard, carefully parted, and a red moustache.
He had extraordinary energy, which showed in his quick movements and terse decisive speech, also he was invariably kind and courteous.
On November 25, 1885, John Murphy married Jeannette C. Plamondon; they had five children, one son and four daughters.