- Howard Atwood Kelly
Howard Atwood Kelly (
February 20 ,1858 –January 12 ,1943 ) was a distinguished American gynecologist, born at Camden, N. J., and educated at theUniversity of Pennsylvania , where he graduated B.A. in 1877 and M.D. in 1882, and where he was associate professor ofobstetrics in 1888-89. While in Philadelphia he foundedKensington Hospital . He wasprofessor ofgynecology and obstetrics atJohns Hopkins University from 1889 to 1899 and after the latter year — when he became also gynecological surgeon inJohns Hopkins Hospital — of gynecology alone. High attainments in his special field brought Dr. Kelly many honors — he received the degree of (LL.D.) from Aberdeen and Washington and Lee universities and from the University of Pennsylvania; served as president of theSouthern Surgical and Gynecological Society in 1907 and of theAmerican Gynecological Society in 1912; and was elected fellow or honorary member of English, Scottish, French, German,Austria n, and Italian obstetrical and gynecological societies. Besides contributing some 300 valuable articles to medical journals and editing, with C. P. Noble, "Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery" (volume i, 1907; volume ii, 1908), he published:
* "Operative Gynecology" (two volumes, 1899)
* "The Vermiform Appendix and its Diseases" (1905, 1909)
* "Walter Reed and Yellow Fever" (1906, 1907)
* "Medical Gynecology" (1908)
* " [http://books.google.com/books?id=TpXlx_eZ1usC&pg=PA375&lpg=PA375&dq=Howard+Atwood+Kelly+electrosurgery&source=web&ots=9KRHDoWt9P&sig=SNUhx4iE7bCVX2v43WszkLKuTPc&hl=en#PPA840,M1 Gynecology and abdominal surgery] " with Charles P Noble (1908)
* "Myomata of theUterus ", with T. S. Cullen (1909)
* "Cyclopœdia of American Medical Biography" (1912)
* "American Medical Botanists" (1913)
* "Diseases of theKidney s,Ureter s, and Bladder", with C. F. Burnam, (two volumes, 1914)
* "Dictionary of American medical biography; lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times" with Walter L. Burrage (1928)
* "Electrosurgery" with Grant E. Ward (1932)Eponyms
* Kelly's sign — if the ureter is teased with an artery forceps, it will contract like a snake or worm
* Kelly speculum — a rectal speculum tubular in shape and fitted with an obturator:Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)
* Kelly clamp - large haemostatic forceps; arguably among the most common and best known surgical instruments everExternal links
*See [http://www.snopes.com/glurge/milk.asp Snopes entry on "glass of milk" anecdote]
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date=1943-01-25
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accessdate=2008-08-10 in Time Magazine January 25, 1943. :NIE:US-med-bio-stub
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