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Van Hook was born on May 16, 1862, at Greenville, Floyd County, Indiana. He was the son of William Russell and Matilda (Weller) Van Hook.
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Excerpt from Strangulated Inguinal Hernia of a Cystic Appendix Vermiformis Rupture Of the cystic appendix by taxis in the effort to reduce an inguinal hernia is an accident which, as has been already remarked, has not before been recorded. And even if one were aware of such a possibility no practical advantage Of the knowledge could be taken, both on account Of the rarity Of the circumstance and the want Of diagnostic signs to lead us to a proper knowledge Of the conditions before operating. The practical lesson to be gained from an acquaint ance with this case is that the contents Of a hernia are practically unknowable before the sac is Opened, and that taxis is dangerous in a certain proportion Of cases. But little persuasion is needed to con Vince surgeons today that the Open method is, in the great majority Of instances, the simplest, most radical, and satisfactory treatment for strangulated and incarcerated hernias. Cystic enlargement Of the vermiform appendix seems first to have been noted by Virchow, who had Observed a case in which the appen dix was distended to the size Of a man's fist and as the contents were a thin watery fluid, he called the condition hydrops Of the vermiform appendix. 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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Excerpt from The Surgery of the Ureters: A Clinical, Literary and Experimental Research Thus he states, that upon examining the ureters of Over twenty bodies he never found one over fifteen inches long, the average being between ten and twelve inches in length. The ureter when stripped from the peritoneum may be drawn out from two to four inches. 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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Van Hook was born on May 16, 1862, at Greenville, Floyd County, Indiana. He was the son of William Russell and Matilda (Weller) Van Hook.
Van Hook was graduated from the Louisville, Ky. , high school in 1881, from the University of Michigan in 1884, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago (later the medical department of the University of Illinois) in 1885.
Following an internship at the Cook County Hospital, Van Hook took up general practice near Chicago's West Side Medical Center. In 1894, he went abroad and for a year did graduate work in Berlin and Vienna. Upon his return to Chicago, he announced the limitation of his practice to surgery.
In 1892, he was appointed a professor of principles of surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and at about the same time he became associated with the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School as an instructor in clinical surgery. Four years later, he transferred to the chair of surgery at Northwestern University Medical School, where he remained until 1908.
In April 1896, he published in Annals of Surgery his newly devised method of operation for the correction of hypospadias. This method, generally known as the Van Hook-Mayo operation, is equally applicable to the repair of epispadias. In addition to numerous articles in journals, he wrote the chapter "Constitutional Reactions to Wounds and Their Infections" for J. C. Warren and A. P. Gould, The International Text-Book of Surgery (1900), and, in collaboration with Dr. A. B. Kanavel, the chapter "Surgery of the Intestines" for W. W. Keen, Surgery, Its Principles and Practice (1906 - 13).
When or how he became a devotee of Theosophy is not recorded. From 1908 until his death, he was a constant contributor of essays to The Theosophist, The Messenger, and Reincarnation. These essays are collected into two volumes, The Cultural System (1925) and The Future Way (1928). He speaks of them as "a group of essays upon various topics of the divine wisdom. " In 1925, he published Voyages, a volume of essays concerning which in the "Foreword" he says: "The musings joined together here were written down, for the most part, on a pilgrimage in nineteen hundred and thirteen, to shrines and holy spots in Europe and Asia. "
His writings are graceful in style, poetic, deeply religious, widely tolerant. Coincident with the growth of his interest in Theosophy and probably as a result thereof, his enthusiasm for professional work and his prestige in the field of surgery waned. Though he continued his surgical practice, the younger generation of the city's medical profession knew him only as a name and his later years were passed in comparative obscurity.
Van Hook died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his summer home at Coopersville, Michigan.
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While Van Hook had a general surgical practice, he devoted himself especially to the surgery of the genito-urinary tract, in which field he was a pioneer in experimental work.
He devised the generally employed method of repair of wounds of the ureter by lateral implantation of the upper segment of the divided tube into the lower; also, a method of implanting the severed ureter directly into the bladder.
Van Hook was an able teacher and had exceptional operative skill.
On June 16, 1892, Van Hook was married at Sweet Springs, Missouri, to Anna C. Whaley of St. Louis, Missouri.
