1895

John G. Clark, resident gynecologist at Hopkins (under Kelley), performs first radical abdominal hysterectomy; Wertheim of Vienna followed in 1898, and popularized the procedure (Harvey, 89-90). Crile performs research on surgical shock in London laboratory (University College) of Victor Horsley (Crile I, 68-9, 72). First publication of surgical disaster: Four of five abdominal sections in one week [under Howard Kelly] died from postoperative septic peritonitis) in Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports (Robinson, 122-124).