George Edgeworth Fenwick
| Dr George Edgeworth Fenwick MD | |||||||
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| Born | 1825 | ||||||
| Died | 1894 | ||||||
| Residence | Montreal, Upper Canada | ||||||
| Occupation |
medical educator editor literary | ||||||
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FENWICK, GEORGE EDGEWORTH, surgeon, educator, editor, and author; b. 8 Oct. 1825 at Quebec...In the 1870s Fenwick began excision operations on knee bones in order to reduce amputation above the knee, a procedure with great danger of fatal post-operative infection....Fenwick was loved by everyone, including his students, according to Shepherd, for he had “a kindly, open face and a charming benevolent manner.”...he died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 26 June 1894.
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George Edgeworth Fenwick is the author of Excision of the knee joint with report of twenty-eight cases (Montreal, 1883). A portrait of Fenwick by Robert Harris* is located in the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, McGill Univ., and a photograph is reproduced in F. J. Shepherd, Reminiscences of student days and dissecting room (Montreal, 1919), and in H. E. MacDermot, “History of Canadian surgery: George Edgeworth Fenwick (1825–1894),” Canadian Journal of Surgery (Toronto), 11 (1968): 1–4.