1817

McDowell publishes report (Schachner, 86-88) on his first three cases of ovariotomy in The Eclectic Repertory and Analytical Review, under sponsorship of editor Dr. Thomas C. James, professor of midwifery at U. of Pa (106-108). In 1816, via his nephew William McDowell, he had sent copies of his report to his Edinburgh teacher John Bell (which fell into the hands of John Lizars, who absorbed and reprinted McDowell’s work into his own paper of 1824 in Edinburgh Medical & Surgical Journal) and to Philip Syng Physick of Phila., who said nothing and did nothing. Lizars paper of 1824 (93-101) “had but a failure to report, as no tumor was found, the very title, Observations on Extirpation of the Ovaria, with Cases, by John Lizars, etc., becomes questionable” (103, 187-190; Shepherd[2], 38-41).