{"id":3797,"date":"2010-07-18T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2013-06-12T23:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:30:29","slug":"ephraim-mcdowell-pioneering-surgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/2010\/07\/ephraim-mcdowell-pioneering-surgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephraim McDowell, Pioneering Surgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3801\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/McDowell_cvc_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3801\" src=\"http:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/McDowell_cvc_11-449x1023.jpg\" alt=\"Kentucky physician and surgeon Ephraim McDowell\" title=\"McDowell_cvc_1\" width=\"449\" height=\"1023\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3801\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kentucky physician and surgeon Ephraim McDowell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kentucky physician Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830) has the distinction in American surgery of being the first surgeon to perform an intraabdominal operation when he performed an ovariotomy in 1809 in Danville, Kentucky. His case list also includes the surgical removal of a bladder stone from James Polk, who later became President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>There is a statue of McDowell in the United States Capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky physician Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830) has the distinction in American surgery of being the first surgeon to perform an intraabdominal operation when he performed an ovariotomy in 1809 in Danville, Kentucky. His case list also includes the surgical removal of a bladder stone from James Polk, who later became President of the United States. 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