1883

Lawson Tait operates successfully for rupture of a tubal pregnancy; by 1884 he had operated five times for such acute hemorrhage with only one death (Shepherd, 59). Nephrectomy for “moveable” or “floating” kidney increasingly replaced by surgery to raise and “hitch up” the kidney (nephrorrhaphy) (Dally, 39-44). Opening of new biological laboratory under H. Newall Martin at Johns Hopkins (Fye, 161-62).