llshire. Dr. David Hayes Agnew (1818-92) was of Scottish descent.
In his work "he attained a degree of eminence which has rarely, if
ever, been equaled, and to which our own times and generation furnish
no parallel." William Thomas Green Morton (1819-68), the discoverer of
anaesthesia, was also of Scottish origin. Dr. Robert Alexander Kinloch
(1826-91), of Scottish parentage, was the first American surgeon to
resect the knee joint for chronic cases, also the first to treat
fractures of the lower jaw and other bones by wiring the fragments,
and was also the first in any country to perform a laparotomy for
gunshot wounds in the abdomen without protrusion of the viscera. Dr.
George Troup Maxwell (1827-1879), was inventor of the laryngoscope.
James Ridley Taylor (1821-1895), who entered the medical profession
after middle life, at the end of a long career passed as a mechanical
engineer, and achieved success and fame in his profession, was born in
Ayr, Scotland. He probably inherited his mechanical skill from his
uncle, John Taylor of Dalswinton, who constructed the steam engine
along with Symington. James Henry McLean (1829-86), physician and
Member of Congress, was born in Scotland. Dr. James Craig (1834-88),
obstetrician, born in Glasgow, graduated at the University of the City
of New York, attended over four thousand cases without the loss of a
mother, was inventor of several surgical appliances, and was the first
to demonstrate hydriodic acid as a curative in acute inflammatory
rheumatism. Professor Alexander Johnson Chalmers Skene (1837-1900), of
Brooklyn, born in Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, was perhaps the most famous
Gynecologist in America. He was author of many treatises on his
special subject. Prof. Charles McBurney (b. 1845), the famous surgeon,
was of Scottish ancestry. Neil Jamieson Hepburn, born in Orkney in
1846, oculist and aurist, held many positions of responsibility.
Charles Smith Turnbull (b. 1847), oculist and eminent specialist in
diseases of the ear, was of Scottish parentage. Alexander Hugh
Ferguson (1853-1911), the famous Chicago surgeon of Scottish
parentage, was decorated by the King of Portugal for his skill in
surgery. Other prominent doctors and surgeons of Scottish origin whom
we have only space to name are: John Barclay Crawford (1828-94);
William Smith Forbes (1831-1905), grandson of Dr. David Forbes of
Edinburgh; John Minson Gait (d. 1808), and his son Alexander D. Gait
(1777-1841); Robert Ramsey