A Memoir of Henry Jacob Bigelow

A memoir of Henry Jacob Bigelow – is a book, which was published in 1900 and written by William Sturgis Bigelow, a prominent American collector of Japanese art and the son of Henry Jacob Bigelow. Henry Jacob Bigelow is an American surgeon, medical writer, and professor of surgery at Harvard University. Henry Jacob Bigelow is a dominant figure in Boston medicine for many decades. He is also remembered for the Bigelow maneuver for hip dislocation, the treatment of kidney stones, and other innovations. He was instrumental in bringing the anesthetic potential of ether to the attention of physicians and in saving the Phineas Gage case from relative obscurity. He was an ardent opponent of vivisection and played a minor role in the arrest of the perpetrator in the Parkman-Webster murder case.