1805

University of Pennsylvania creates separate professorship of surgery, given to Philip Syng Physick (Corner, 51-53), who stood at head of American surgery for over a third of a century “and won an international reputation, esp. for his skill in lithotomy and for inventiveness in devising methods for the treatment of major fractures” (53). Succeeded by John Syng Dorsey in 1818 and William Gibson in 1819 (68-70).