ocr: Year Surgeon Event 1809 Ephraim McDowell Elective abdominal surgery (excised ovarian tumor) 1846 John Collins Warren Use of cther anesthesia (excised submaxillary gland) 1867 Joseph Lister Introduction of antisepsis 1860-1890 Albert Theodore Billroth First gastrectomy, aryngectomy, and esophagectomy 1878 Richard von Volkmann Excision of cancerous ectum 1880s Theodore Kocher Development of thyroid surgery 1890 William Stesart Halsted Radical mastectomy 1896 G.T. Beatson Dophorectony for breast cancer 1904 Hugh H. Young Radical prostatectomy 1906 Ernest Wertheim Radical hysterectomy 1908 W. Erne ...
